If this doesn't define what TOR really is, what does?

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Tue Mar 7 21:37:13 PST 2017


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On 03/07/2017 06:27 PM, John Newman wrote:

>>> Not sure about those two. Another explanation could be this :
>>> 
>>> there wasn't any malware served, and the users of the site
>>> were identified using plain old traffic analysis. That's
>>> certainly something that both the government AND the tor mafia
>>> would like to sweep under the rug.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
>> I think that might be very likely. How many times has the tor
>> project publicly acknowledged attacks involving ephemeral setup
>> of large number of tor nodes for purpose of attack?
> 
>> Would NSA even need to own any nodes considering how many
>> different places they have taps into the internet? I don't think
>> so.

Sounds reasonable if NSA was involved:  But this show was billed as an
FBI production, and I don't think the NSA ventures into law
enforcement territory.  The narrative presented by the FBI, including
the use of an exploit against Firefox + Microsoft sounded plausible to
me at the time.

:o)



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