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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
There are already two products out there that stop this type of attack or "Tor break".

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 ...

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