Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)
Posted Oct 6, 2013 17:11 UTC (Sun) by
rgmoore (subscriber, #75)
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Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) by robert_s
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Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)
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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