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Smart detection for passive sniffing in the Tor-network

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Re: Smart detection for passive sniffing in the Tor-network

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Respectfully, that's not how most users view it, and that's the important thing.

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Why ?

You goolge tor, and end up on https://www.torproject.org/ You click download and it offers you Tor browser.

Seems self explanatory.

Re: Smart detection for passive sniffing in the Tor-network

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If someone just has tcpdump running this won't catch them unless they actually try to use the links or credentials they retrieved. I like this, but from the title I expected to be able to detect that tcpdump is running, akin to what you can do with malformed ARP packets to detect a NIC in promiscuous mode. Edit: in case anyone is wondering what I'm talking about - http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3630/how-…

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