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Probably because they have a hard-on for snooping and TOR, by design, makes it extremely hard to correlate usage with a person without owning exit nodes and/or
by coolnow 13y ago
Probably because they have a hard-on for snooping and TOR, by design, makes it extremely hard to correlate usage with a person without owning exit nodes and/or social engineering.
- krapp 13y agoRealistically though, if the NSA were going to penetrate TOR, they would just own exit nodes and do social engineering. Bear in mind that the American government had a hand in building TOR to begin with. That this appears to be so blatant suggests to me that it has nothing to do with surveillance at a state level.
- jfoster 13y agoRealistically they'd probably use a variety of approaches. Each approach could have its own limitations or be closed off without much notice. Wouldn't you want to hedge your bets?
- krapp 13y agoHedge against what, though? Even if it isn't outside the realm of possibility, I don't think it's plausible for an organization that's supposedly powerful enough to monitor and archive all domestic and incoming electronic communication, when there's an entire ecosystem of hackers and skiddies out there anyway who do this kind of thing elsewhere all the time. JS in an iframe? XSS? Why would they even bother? Edit -- turns out it might actually be the FBI... http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1jmrta/founder_of_the_freedom_hosting_arrested_held/ http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1jmrta/founder_of_th...