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



"Rumors of Tor's compromise are greatly exaggerated"
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/rumors-tors-compromise-are-greatly-exaggerated

[[   Mohit Kumar   ]] @ [[   24/10/2011 16:31   
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> 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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