, SecurityFocus 2007-03-08
The Tor network--a distributed system of computers that anonymizes the source of network traffic--has a slew of beneficial uses: Human-rights workers, the military and journalists all use the system. However, the anonymity of Tor has also attracted seedier elements as well: digital pirates, online criminals and, quite possibly, child pornographers.
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1) JanusVM (with Java still enabled)
2) Torpark (with Java disabled)
This attack is not that new, and the underlying idea has been around sometime and well discussed on the Tor treads.
My favorite point in this article is "could also be used by authoritarian regimes to track down democracy activists or by the United States' enemies to track down the military intelligence officers that use the network."
This is exactly why I support Tor and will continue to make JanusVM better, because I believe in freedom.
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