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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 10:18 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)In reply to: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) by renox Parent article: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)
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.
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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.
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