Tor Open To Attack 109
An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers have written a paper that lays out an attack against Tor (PDF) in enough detail to cause Roger Dingledine a fair amount of heartburn. The essential avenue of attack is that Tor doesn't verify claims of uptime or bandwidth, allowing an attacker to advertise more than it need deliver, and thus draw traffic. If the attacker controls the entry and exit node and has decent clocks, then the attacker can link these together and trace someone through the network."
Re:fp troll (Score:1, Funny)
Not quite so oblig SW reference.. (Score:3, Funny)
"I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of child-pornographers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Now now, I know Tor isn't just used for naughty stuff. I just thought it was funny. Sorta.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2, Funny)
welcome to the watchlist (Score:3, Funny)
So, ze kiddie porn is on vor mind, eh Social Engineer? Very interesting. Who besides grandstanding politicians, media whores and actual pedophiles actually thinks or talks about kiddie porn? You must be one of the bag guys. The FBI vill be watching everything you do for the next ten years.
Re:I for one.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well, not just that. (Score:0, Funny)
No love for Freenet? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:COMSEC, not SIGINT (Score:5, Funny)