Tor, no longer anonymous
If you don’t know what Tor is, here’s a summary from the Tor homepage:
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
Unfortunately, the University of Colorado at Boulder recently published an article that explains how they hacked the Tor system and compromised the anonymity of the Tor network.
**WARNING** the following snippet is very nerdy:
We experimentally showed that after deploying a few high-bandwidth, high-uptime servers, an adversary can, with high probability, compromise the entrance and exit servers on a route for new clients,” says Low-Resource Routing Attacks Against Anonymous Systems, a University of Colorado at Boulder Technical Report, going on:
Having compromised these two servers, we then presented and experimentally validated a new method for linking paths, thereby compromising anonymity by binding together both parties in a flow.
Low-Resource Routing Attacks Against Anonymous Systems - [University of Colorado]
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