End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise(wired.com)

17 pointsby nickb19 lat temu2 comments

End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks?currentPage=1

2 comments

bharath19 lat temu

Misleading title. Tor promises an anonymous source IP and nothing more. Its still good for that application.

rms19 lat temu

This is a known issue with Tor. It doesn't encrypt data, it just anonymizes it. If you put unencrypted info in Tor, it comes out on the other side unencrypted.