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

[charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Withdrawn :P


Quoting charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> I got the impression that they have fully compromised the actual TOR  
> network, not a dummy network, am I wrong?
>
> Charlie
>
> Quoting Travis Biehn <tbiehn@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> -Travis
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mohit Kumar  
>> <thehackernews@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> French researchers from  
>>> ESIEA<http://www.esiea.fr/c/en/Web.Esiea.Public.cuke?>,
>>> a French engineering school, have found and exploited some serious
>>> vulnerabilities in the TOR network. They performed an inventory of the
>>> network, finding 6,000 machines, many of whose IPs are accessible publicly
>>> and directly with the system?s source code. They demonstrated that it is
>>> possible to take control of the network and read all the messages that
>>> circulate.
>>>
>>> But there are also hidden nodes, the Tor Bridges, which are provided by the
>>> system that in some cases. Researchers have developed a script that, once
>>> again, to identify them. They found 181. "*We now have a complete picture
>>> of the topography of Tor*," said Eric Filiol.
>>>
>>> Read More at "The Hacker News" --
>>> http://thehackernews.com/2011/10/tor-anonymizing-network-compromised-by.html
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