Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]

Most of those using well-known privacy tools for "privacy" do not realize that they are painting a target on themselves. The elite hide data in plain sight. I am not elite, btw. I stay the hell out of it, and I suggest you do the same if you don't know what you are really doing, or even if you do.

God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Re: Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]

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Post by ZoF » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 1:54 AM UTC

SilliMon wrote: post #4

A good read. Is the recent speed improvement in TOR due to this being done?

Published in 2010 so I doubt it...

Re: Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]

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Post by Amadou » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 2:21 AM UTC

I read the abstract. I'm thinking this attack is mitigated by increasing Tor popularity. The more total Tor traffic, the less likely that deploying high-bandwidth ingress and egress nodes will grab the specific traffic the attacker is looking for.

Re: Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]

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Post by s_q_b » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 2:28 AM UTC

Surely the sudden spike in entry and exit nodes would make the attack obvious. The central directory authority service could be modified to blacklist nodes from the master OR directory list that join within too small of a time interval.

On a more practical note, few cloud providers are going to let their network suddenly become a massive transit space for Tor traffic.

Before this could be successfully deployed in the wild, the problem can be easily corrected.

Re: Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 2:45 AM UTC

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