Re: [Full-disclosure] Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Thor (Hammer of God)
<thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Any* assumptions that presuppose security based on social affiliation need 
> to be reconsidered.
Linus Torvalds would disagree with you. Git is secure because Linus
has friends :) See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 at
27:43.

Jeff

>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:full-disclosure-
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>>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 9:32 AM
>>To: Travis Biehn
>>Cc: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Tor anonymizing network Compromised by
>>French researchers
>>
>>On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:53:02 EDT, Travis Biehn said:
>>
>>> So they put up a fake network, 'hacked' most of the nodes, and with
>>> complete control of their dummy network they were able to figure out
>>> traffic movement?
>>>
>>> This is news why?
>>
>>It's not news - it's *long* been known that Tor would be breakable if
>>somebody pwned a sufficient percentage of the nodes.  It's been regarded as
>>a mostly theoretical attack, because the sort of people that run Tor have up 
>>to
>>now been the paranoid type that tend to secure their systems better.
>>
>>The only part of *news* in it was this:
>>
>>"Researchers showed that one third of the nodes are vulnerable,"
>>
>>So maybe the "people who run Tor are more paranoid" assumption is flawed
>>and needs to be reconsidered.

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