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Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)Posted Oct 5, 2013 5:43 UTC (Sat) by renox (subscriber, #23785)Parent article: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)
That's funny: I remember arguing that using Tor against governments which can monitor networks is shouting "look at me, I have something to hide".
Against such kind of opponent, ,thereare only two real way to be safe: steganography or everybody using encryption(even weak one:it makes monitoring encrypted traffic very difficult). The first is a pain to use, the second is a dream..
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Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) Posted Oct 5, 2013 10:18 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
If you want to conclude that, don't conclude it from this article because it mostly shows the NSA having to attack the browser being unable (at least at this point) to effectively attack Tor itself.
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) Posted Oct 6, 2013 17:11 UTC (Sun) by rgmoore (subscriber, #75) [Link] I'm not sure that's a correct interpretation. The goal of Tor is to make browsing anonymous so it's impossible to figure out who's doing what. What appears to have happened is that they can now analyze the traffic enough to connect a set of browsing behavior to a particular online persona. That's critical, because it's quite possible to target a specific persona even if you can't yet connect it to a real world person. That they can't do it through Tor is not especially relevant; that they can do it at all is enough to substantially diminish Tor's value.
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) Posted Oct 6, 2013 4:03 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> That's funny: I remember arguing that using Tor against governments which can monitor networks is shouting "look at me, I have something to hide".
This isn't a unreasonable sentiment considering that the majority of Tor Project's funding comes from the U.S. Department of Defense (which NSA's parent organization) and the U.S. State Department.
https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2012-TorProject-F...
Of course the DoD funds a great many huge number of things, much of it completely innocent. Just something to keep in mind, I guess.
It's good that it's open source so it's feasible to dismiss suspicions.
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