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As the Tor community knew of a possible compromise in advance, what what is the purpose of this? Sounds like fear mongering by the TLAs with the aim to discredi
by alfiedotwtf 12y ago
As the Tor community knew of a possible compromise in advance, what what is the purpose of this? Sounds like fear mongering by the TLAs with the aim to discredit anonymity within the network rather than actual malice.
- chummm 12y agoAt this point we really don't know.
- nickporter 12y agoWhat's wrong with informing the public that his exit node might be compromised? I would want to know. Also, IMO it's unlikely that these events are unrelated. 1. Tor says they might get compromised. 2. Guy's exit node gets compromised.
- lazyjones 12y agoUm, it's useful for other Tor operators to know what to look for if they find their servers rebooting / going down for a while without good reason. Also, warning people not to use those mirror sites is a responsible reaction to possible compromise.
- alfiedotwtf 12y agoSorry, I think you misunderstood me... what I meant was - what is the purpose of the TLAs continuing with their raids if everyone knew it was about happen. That's what I meant by fear mongering.
- meowface 12y agoIt's possible that they suspect the servers are hosting other services/content and aren't just Tor exit nodes. Other than that, I agree, I don't see what the point of this would be. Especially when there was some early warning. It is possible that the warning from a few days ago is entirely unrelated to this incident, though.
- lazyjones 12y agoOK, they might simply seek control of those servers in preparation for some large-scale action. Or they are after some people who they know absolutely depend on Tor to operate. Just wild speculation though...
- CheckHook 12y ago> Or they are after some people who they know absolutely depend on Tor to operate. Just wild speculation though... Maybe this is related to the Sony hacks, the authorities could know about a forthcoming data leak or threat. Taking away a major source of anonymity could prevent the information getting out.
- ossreality 12y agoDid we read the same thing?
- spacefight 12y agoI thought the advanced warning was related to directory servers, not exit nodes.
- ridgewell 12y agoIt is. an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next few days through the seizure of specialized servers in the network called directory authorities. - https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-...
- psykovsky 12y agoThe same guy also controls a dirauth, not only exit servers.