Monday, November 26, 2007

From the 'esoteric but important' files...

New Details Support Tor Spying Theory

"You'll recall the story about the Swedish security researcher who stumbled upon unencrypted embassy e-mail traffic that was passing through five Tor exit nodes he set up. ...

TeamFurry researchers decided to examine the configuration of a few Tor exit nodes to see what they might be up to and found some interesting results...

Of course there's no telling who the exit node owners are (bored hackers, industrial spies or intelligence agencies) or what they're doing for sure, but as TeamFurry notes, the configurations sure look suspicious." (more)


Tor is digital 'Hide and Seek'.
Carter would have loved it.