United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

Post by Asdfbla » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 1:09 AM UTC

tga_d wrote: post #49

Asdfbla wrote: post #27

Just out of curiosity: How is Tor looking these days, security-wise? Does someone have a recent analysis of the attacks Tor is facing from state-level attackers currently? Just wondering if any new threats to Tor have come up in the recent years that hadn't been considered before stuff like Snowden happened.

My impressions from the research community have been that the consensus is 1. Using Tor is more private (and possibly more secure) than a VPN or nothing at all, 2. Tor will not protect you from a targeted attack by a well-funded, state-level adversary, 3. It may or may not defend you against more dragnet types of attacks, depending on the state of the cat-and-mouse between offense and defense (it most likely will pro…

Post by rmela » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 1:36 AM UTC

Post by ragsagar » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 2:48 AM UTC

hackerboos wrote: post #16

baybal2 wrote: post #13

Did they block pr0n there?

Even Skype was blocked in Abu Dhabi last time I was there.

Post by jimmaswell » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 4:42 AM UTC

blunte wrote: post #28

What this really indicates, bot or not, is that once you educate people, they will act in their self (and more importantly, self+others) interests. Oppressive and controlling (controlling or controling, I can never decide) regimes will try to prevent it. But it is like trying to prevent wind. The wind will come. You must adapt and accept. And if you are against the wind, you must change.

Post by lorenzhs » Sun, Jan 22, 2017, 10:34 AM UTC

Asdfbla wrote: post #27

Just out of curiosity: How is Tor looking these days, security-wise? Does someone have a recent analysis of the attacks Tor is facing from state-level attackers currently? Just wondering if any new threats to Tor have come up in the recent years that hadn't been considered before stuff like Snowden happened.