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Update your Tors - Tor security advisory: "relay early" traffic confirmation attack
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- Subject: Update your Tors - Tor security advisory: "relay early" traffic confirmation attack
- From: [email protected] (James York)
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:06:07 -0700
On 2014-08-04 15:33, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> A less controversial reading of the (US Govt Money) >>= Tor "thing" is
that, while the Tor devs may be doing their best, Tor is ultimately an
asset to the US Intelligence apparatus rather than a liability.
The missing context here is that the NSA runs its own anonymity networks
because it doesn't trust community-run infrastructure.
Some things are useful to the intelligence community. Like phones. And
cars. And the Internet. Why disregard a technology just because it might
be used by spies?