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>Tor remains safe to use. What are these not-so-rare reports of mass unmasking of people then? I'm genuinely curious, not begging the question.
by Aoyagi 12y ago
>Tor remains safe to use.
What are these not-so-rare reports of mass unmasking of people then? I'm genuinely curious, not begging the question.
- pyre 12y agoWhat reports? The site seizures?
- cjbprime 12y agoThese unmaskings have been performed through (usually egregious) opsec failures on the part of the user, rather than performed by attacking the Tor network directly.
- bashinator 12y agoAlso I believe there were some traffic correlation attacks where the attacker was able to get netflow data from both entrance nodes and (?) the traffic destination outside of Tor.
- nominated1 12y agoI'm not aware of network faults just "user errors". Allowing js and plug-ins to run puts you in the "low hanging fruit" category.
- pstrateman 12y agoTor is designed with a specific threat model. That threat model explicitly does not provide protection against a global observer. That means tor is NOT safe against a state level attacker with an extensive surveillance network.
- higherpurpose 12y agoWell be specific. Some have been caught due to using outdated Tor software. Others, like the recent Silk Road bust, because they used "hidden services" incorrectly, and the hidden services were never actually advertised by Tor as being perfectly safe. But the latter one has nothing to do with users, but with "website" operators inside the Tor network.