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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals
Robert Lemos, 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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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-09
Anonymous (2 replies)
M$ for molesters? 2007-03-09
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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-09
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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-09
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Re: Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-09
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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-13
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Tor hack proposed to catch criminals 2007-03-13
Andrew Christensen
I'm a little curious how different technically this is from the techniques described here:

http://www.fortconsult.net/images/pdf/Practical_Onion_Hacking.pdf

or the tools available here?

http://www.fortconsult.net/images/torutils.tgz

and mentioned here:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2006-10-17

=)

- Andrew

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