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Is it possible that this, and the release of this information, is part of a NSA strategy for deterring people from using TOR or encryption? Internet users will
by fchollet 12y ago
Is it possible that this, and the release of this information, is part of a NSA strategy for deterring people from using TOR or encryption? Internet users will now be too scared to be put on some list to even look up information about TOR or PGP.
- mkohlmyr 12y agoAdmittedly I'm not well versed in TOR and how secure it actually is but surely it would be more actionable for major intelligence agencies to operate a number nodes in the network and use them to attempt to track and mitm requests? As for encryption I haven't seen much to indicate a deterrence strategy, but maybe I'm not following the media as much as I should.
- alextgordon 12y agoRead this: http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-stinks.pdf http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor-stinks.pdf "Current: access to very few nodes. Success rate negligible because all three Tor nodes in the circuit have to be in the set of nodes we have access to"
- mkohlmyr 12y agoFair enough. Thanks for the link.
- Globz 12y agoFunny how they want to investigate Evercookie persistence and use it to identify Tor users. For those of you who doesn't know about Evercookie : http://samy.pl/evercookie/ http://samy.pl/evercookie/ https://github.com/samyk/evercookie https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
- Crito 12y agoIt seems to me that the two tactics could be complementary. If you discourage people from using Tor, then you don't have to devote as many resources to the people that use Tor.
- giancarlostoro 12y agoWouldn't it be shown on American / English media then?
- jonnybgood 12y agoNo, I don't think this article is providing facts. The US government created Tor and has been a major sponsor since it's inception. It would be against US government (State Department) interest for people to stop using it.