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that's news to me. a cursory google search doesn't show anything substantive (only tor browser vulnerabilities). are you saying that tor, the protocol, is com
by appleflaxen 9y ago
that's news to me.
a cursory google search doesn't show anything substantive (only tor browser vulnerabilities).
are you saying that tor, the protocol, is compromised? what's the basis for your claim?
we do know that state actors can break it at great expense, but that isn't really a statement about tor weakness as much as it's a statement about the resources of state actors. and for a person like RMS who is likely not a state-level threat, his use of Tor probably does provide him with some degree of protection.
- j_s 9y agoIt has happened in the past (chosen example: 2014). Not sure if any current vulnerability is public. https://blog.torproject.org/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack https://blog.torproject.org/tor-security-advisory-relay-earl... https://blog.torproject.org/did-fbi-pay-university-attack-tor-users https://blog.torproject.org/did-fbi-pay-university-attack-to...
- mandelbrotwurst 9y agoFrom a certain perspective, he is a "state-level" threat. Not an imminent, physical threat, certainly - this is a threat of a different type. He loudly and vigorously argues and advocates against various government policies and actions (as well as those of the largest corporations most deeply entangled with the state apparatus) and gives advice on how best to resist them.
- mrguyorama 9y agoWeren't those side channel attacks? IE getting the tor browser to leak info over plain internet when connecting to an onion site so the connection could be correlated?