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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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Embassy leaks highlight pitfalls of Tor 2007-09-19
Anonymous
Damm! That was a pretty neat way to educate people to encrypt sensitive data. People just dont get it. I recently wrote a blog post called "Reading passwords over the Internet : Step by Step Guide " at http://blog.netotto.com/index.php?m=09&y=07&entry=entry070915-033128

with the intent to convince ...

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