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In July, Yasha Levine reported on a number of apparent conflicts of interest concerning the Tor project and those who promote it as a means of protecting one's anonymity online. In addition, evidence is presented that Tor users are actively being surveiled by the NSA, including a leaked NSA document noting the opportunity presented by this "critical mass" of targets. A follow up article reveals the hostile response from some Tor advocates.
Recently we saw law enforcement exercise their capability to identify and shutdown sites hidden via Tor.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by tftp on Monday November 17 2014, @09:50PM
There are about 6,800 TOR routers [blutmagie.de]. It is not beyond belief to presume that plenty of them are operated by the government. How many routers one has to control to trace a packet? Routers may not know the contents, but they know the time, the packet size, and perhaps the likely topology of the network. Most routers do not resolve to a domain name, and perhaps they are on a dynamic IP of Comcast or some other consumer level ISP.
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Tuesday November 18 2014, @12:12AM
Given that the CIA are happy to aim drone strikes at people based on metadata, I'm sure the NSA et al are having a field day with ours.