Tor Stinks re Traffic Analysis and Sybil (as do other networks)

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Mon Nov 25 19:56:09 PST 2019


On 11/25/2019 08:07 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:58:09 +0000
> Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote:
> 
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>> It should be noted that NSA do not say they can break TOR in practice, 
>> and afaik there is no evidence that they have.
> 
> 	yeah, the NSA can't break tor but some random university can 
> 
> 	https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7yp5a/carnegie-mellon-university-attacked-tor-was-subpoenaed-by-feds

That bug was patched. But there obviously could be others. And the NSA
does tend to stockpile 0days.

Also, one wonders how long the NSA etc had used the bug that CMU exploited.


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