[funsec] Governments hiding behind ToR?

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

Vulnerability Report: Tor 0.1.2.x:
http://secunia.com/product/14349/?task=advisories

Vulnerability Report: Tor 0.1.1.x:
http://secunia.com/product/11789/?task=advisories

- Juha-Matti

rms at computerbytesman.com wrote: 
> Hmm, it looks like ToR is not so secure after all as a bunch of governmental
> users just found out.
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> Richard
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> Time to reveal.
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> http://www.derangedsecurity.com/time-to-reveal%E2%80%A6/
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> Did you get it? These governments told their users to use ToR, a software
> that sends all your traffic through not one but three other servers that you
> know absolutely nothing about. Yes, two are getting encrypted traffic but
> that last exit node is not. There are hundreds of thousands ToR-users but
> finding these kinds of accounts was. hmm. chocking! The person who wrote the
> security policy on these accounts should reconsider changing profession,
> start cleaning toilets! These administrators are responsible for giving away
> their own countries secrets to foreigners. I can't call it a mistake, this
> is pure stupidity and not forgivable!
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> http://tor.eff.org/
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> anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and
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> on which software developers can build new applications with built-in
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