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Embassy leaks highlight pitfalls of Tor
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-09-10

A Swedish security professional that posted the usernames and passwords for 100 e-mail accounts belonging to various nations' embassies and political parties revealed on Monday that he exploited the improper usage of the Tor network -- a distributed system of computers that anonymizes the source of network traffic -- to collect the information.

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what a joke 2007-09-11
Anonymous (2 replies)
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Re: what a joke 2007-10-03
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Embassy leaks highlight pitfalls of Tor 2007-09-12
Anonymous
Even if ssl layer is used, i don't know the details of tor but i'd imagine if your going to connect to an untrusted tor proxy then the ssl is unlikely to save your bacon if he's determined! Tor is mainly to stop location info being derived not security.

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