----- Forwarded message from Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk@gmx.com> ----- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:41:04 -0500 From: Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk@gmx.com> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013 Message-ID: <52559530.1060502@gmx.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Reply-To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org On 10/9/2013 10:27 AM, Lunar wrote:

======================================================================== Tor Weekly News October 9th, 2013 ========================================================================

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what's happening in the world of Tor — “king of high-secure, low-latency anonymity” [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-high-secure-int...

New tranche of NSA/GCHQ Tor documents released ----------------------------------------------

... a series of stories were published in the Guardian and the Washington Post that detailed alleged attempts by NSA, GCHQ, and their allies to defeat or circumvent the protection that Tor offers its users. ...

The documents in question [3] offer,... a summary of attacks against Tor users and the network as a whole that they have considered or carried out.

I'm sure Tor developers have considered the real possibility that some or all of what different agencies release, about their capabilities & successes (or lack of) against Tor - or anything else, is misinformation, designed to make the Tor Project AND users more comfortable in continuing to use TBB. Logically, if any agency or adversary divulged they can somewhat successfully track users or "infiltrate the system," then most would stop using it and a valuable method to gather information or catch "criminals" would cease to exist. Good poker players and gov'ts NEVER reveal their hands. I wouldn't take seriously anything that ANY gov't publicly reveals about their technology or intelligence capability (or lack there or). Over a long history, it's been repeatedly shown that advanced gov'ts always know more & have more technology capability, than is revealed. That is, often until decades later, when the real truth comes out. It's no different now. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5