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Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks
- superfamicom 6y agoSeems morally dubious from every angle: - paying way less for what it is when you sell it to "governments", a hefty fee for a black market loop whole to sell your hacks - is any government hacking people (either citizens or foreign nationals) a good thing? - hunting "bad guys" is always the image put forth, but never the whole image
- tootahe45 6y agoSeems rather over-priced considering a random guy was able to control 23% of the TOR network..
- dclusin 6y agoReference: https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-actor-controlled-23-tor-exit-nodes https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-actor-controlled-23-t... Sounds more like a team of people that knew what they were doing.
- londons_explore 6y agoBreaking tor anonymity isn't awfully hard - you just need lots of nodes and some luck. Governments really want to break the encryption and see the actual contents of connections, which is why they typically prefer exploits to tor endpoints.