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by archway in Security Questions
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The feds are making some interesting moves in the grand game of crypto-chess. Last month they were warning that our use of crypto was going to impede law enforcement.
But this month we're seeing this:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nsa-worried-th ... te-1516795
http://arstechnica.com/securi
by archway in Security Questions
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Attackers wield Firefox exploit to uncloak anonymous Tor users
Publicly available exploit threatens all Tor users unless they take action now.
This helps explain how the FBI got in. Anybody using software that auto-updates can have something like this slipstreamed into their updates.
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by archway in Security Questions
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OK, Spaghetti Knight, yes I used CAPS and can see what you mean that it sounds like the propaganda we get educated about. (That doesn't mean it is wrong, even if true) But ya just gotta love where it says " When you are on the Internet you might as well be writing for the front page of an intern
by archway in Security Questions
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Get over it, folks. If it is illegal, you shouldn't do it. Period. When you are on the Internet you might as well be writing for the front page of an international newspaper. Get over it. Live decent lives instead of wasting them away. Go to school. Be useful to society. Pay taxes. You know
by archway in Running a Server
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It seems to me that TOR has a major failing in that after the exit node the connection to the server is in the clear. Is there some way to run TOR all the way end to end?
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview
by SherylasGirm in Security Questions
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I think you posted this in the wrong place. This is the safety forum.
by ManInTheMiddle in Security Questions
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Bingo on that - the use of a VPN should be just the same as using your own ISP. The only difference is an added encrypted hop, with TOR tunneling through is and out from there to the TOR network.
And Also bingo on the fact that the real security problem is the fact that TOR exits to the unencr
by archway in Security Questions
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It seems to me that TOR has a major failing in that after the exit node the connection to the server is in the clear. Is there some way to run TOR all the way end to end?
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview
Also, take a look at this post: http://torforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6