Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services
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Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services
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#2Anyone able to comment on the state of Tor security and suggest an up to date OpSec guide to using Tor?
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#3Onion link to the service: http://bsxsptv76s6cjht7.onion/
(source linked in the article, but in Italian: http://www.anticorruzione.it/portal/public/classic/Servizi/S...)
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#4Nice. I am hoping onion services become more ubiquitous for desktop use. So many decentralized networks work so hard to solve things like NAT busting and network issues, and they still forget about anonymity.
I am personally working on a tiny side project to build a chat/forum/etc platform based around onion services for all users. Traditionally, it was annoying to have to ask users to install Tor and open up the control port so your app could leverage it. In a recent alpha there is an experimental tiny little C API that can start the Tor system in-app [0]. Leveraging some of the work from [1], I put in some effort to get all the steps working to compile Tor statically in a a single Rust exe on Windows [2]. As Tor's embeddability game increases, I hope more apps will consider using it as part of their network stack. Granted I know the problems that are inherent with "vendoring" security libs like these, but for some uses the benefits outweigh the costs of requiring separate downloads and separate daemons running.
0 - https://blog.torproject.org/tor-0331-alpha-released-back-uns... 1 - https://github.com/iCepa/Tor.framework 2 - https://github.com/cretz/rtsw-poc
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#5Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous.
Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
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#6Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
Even if you believe the NSA have some practical attacks against Tor, are you not still better off using Tor than not using it?
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#7Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
Even if you believe the NSA have some practical attacks against Tor, are you not still better off using Tor than not using it?
better off staying silent
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#8Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
>Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous.
Any references you would want to provide for this claim?
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#9Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
>Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Any references you would want to provide for this claim?
I'd be interested too. I'm aware of the Yasha Levine theory, and complains about js in Firefox ESR, but not much else.
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#10Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous. Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
Even if you believe the NSA have some practical attacks against Tor, are you not still better off using Tor than not using it?
Well, anything special you do that covers your tracks may make you look suspicious. If Tor becomes more ubiquitous, maybe it won't draw suspicion anymore.