Re: Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Thor (Hammer of God)
<thor () hammerofgod com> wrote:
> *Any* assumptions that presuppose security based on social affiliation need to be reconsidered.
Linus Torvalds would disagree with you. Git is secure because Linus
has friends :) See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 at
27:43.

Jeff

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-
> > bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 9:32 AM
> > To: Travis Biehn
> > Cc: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Tor anonymizing network Compromised by
> > French researchers
> >
> > 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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