Re: Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:53:02 EDT, Travis Biehn said:

> So they put up a fake network, 'hacked' most of the nodes, and with complete
> control of their dummy network they were able to figure out traffic
> movement?
>
> This is news why?

It's not news - it's *long* been known that Tor would be breakable if somebody
pwned a sufficient percentage of the nodes.  It's been regarded as a mostly
theoretical attack, because the sort of people that run Tor have up to now been
the paranoid type that tend to secure their systems better.

The only part of *news* in it was this:

"Researchers showed that one third of the nodes are vulnerable,"

So maybe the "people who run Tor are more paranoid" assumption is flawed and
needs to be reconsidered.

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