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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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Re: what a joke 2007-09-18
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actually, given US government's access to IP traffic via Echelon, I doubt they would care about Tor one way or another... ...

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