TOR Project's Executive Director: "I think that if your only adversary is the NSA or GCHQ, you've already lost that battle..." - An eye opening look at the development of TOR and how the people that are helping make it more secure are the ones you may least expect.


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[3 Points] gerundive:

Exquisite irony. Full interview (including headline quote) is here.


[2 Points] None:

That's a great article - thanks! Totally worth the read.

I only recently started putting much effort into learning the entire history of Tor and similar anonymizing projects. This is really one of the times "the truth is stranger than fiction" really applies.


[2 Points] tonyeverready:

Great article thanks for sharing. It's going to be interesting seeing what pops up in the future as far as TOR and anonymity. I'm not sure which market will go down next, but most of the detective work performed by LE has been of the old-fashioned nature.

I'd really like to know the illegal means that the FBI used to seize the SR1 servers, and it still hasn't been disclosed (as far as I know). The DDoS attack angle is possible, and if it was indeed performed by the NSA or a sub-contractor then that doesn't bode well for Agora in my opinion.

The most interesting case to me was the use of torsploit, and the code contained within the Freedom Hosting server. That was nastiness all around. And while NoScript certainly protects against iframe injection coding, who's to say that a server-side version that runs once a server is seized isn't possible?


[1 Points] durgsrbad:

Article linked to a better transcript of the interview - the guy knows what he's on about. Great read. Cheers for the link.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28886465


[1 Points] sharpshooter789:

I thought it was well known that CIA spies use Tor for covert operations.