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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 2007-03-10
Anonymous
The main purpose of using Tor is anonymity. Well, now it's just not so anymore.

I've been using Tor to connect to IRC, mainly to protect myself from hackers. I do not think this is the right way to go since many of us want complete privacy even when one is not doing anything illegal through Tor nod...

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