Spying On Tor 198
juct writes "The long-standing suspicion that the anonymizing network TOR is abused to catch sensitive data by Chinese, Russian, and American government agencies as well as hacking groups gets new support.
Members of the Teamfurry community found TOR exit-nodes which only forward unencrypted versions of certain protocols. These peculiar configurations invite speculation as to why they are set up in this way. Another tor exit node has been caught doing MITM attacks using fake SSL certificates."
Team Furry? (Score:3, Funny)
Are they worried that the Chinese will intercept pictures of them dressed like this [imageshack.us]?
Whew. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Conclusion: (Score:5, Funny)
It's for exactly this reason that Tor should adopt AGPL. That way, if the Chinese government ran a hacked Tor server, they would have to release the source code as well and the hack would be obvious.
Re:Please help us improve our documentation. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You Can't Sue China (Score:3, Funny)
It just goes to show that age does not necessarily bring enlightenment. Thanks for the heads up :).
Re:Conclusion: (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is, a couple hours after suing the Chinese, you want to sue them again.
Re:You Can't Sue China (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please help us improve our documentation. (Score:3, Funny)
Have you tried waterboarding?
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