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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
Is that a joke? How is it possible to be so naive?

most of what that guy sniffed were of course not the legitimate users checking their mails via Tor.

He sniffed foreign intelligence agencies spying on those victims.

Just look at the list of those countries. Most of them are premium choic...

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