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Of course, if they actually have a really easy time de-anonymizing users, they might "leak" a document like this to encourage people to keep using it. Conspiracy theories are fun!
> Critical mass of targets use Tor. Scaring them away from Tor might be counterproductive.
In other words, they'd rather only have to break one anonymization service instead of five.
Today's full Tor coverage by the Guardian is: (Greenwald's article) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack... (Schneier's article) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa... (Leaked doc #1) http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor... (Leaked doc #2) http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/ego... (Leaked doc #3) http://www.theguardian.com/…
For instance, what is (U)? Or (S), (SI), and (REL)?
Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?
That must be a really wierd job, doing tacky but still sophisticated illustrations for top secret internal presentations.
Edit: I found a reference to something called a "Quantum Insert" in an article related to GCHQ. They state the following:
According to the slides in the GCHQ presentation, the attack was directed at several Belgacom employees and involved the planting of a highly developed attack technology referred to as a "Quantum Insert" ("QI"). It appears to be a method with which the person being targeted, without their knowledge, is redirected to websites that then plant malware on their computers that can then manipulate them
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/british-spy-agenc...
This might be what they are referring to, or a system that was built for targeting specific individuals.
Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?
From a quick look this one seems more plausible than the absurd PRISM presentation.
Page 5: "Terrorist with Tor client installed" And its a picture of a guy with a bandit mask and an AK-47. I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume! I honestly can't believe something this tacky would end up in a presentation. Is this supposed to be propaganda?
This presentation seems very odd. Page 4: Dumb Users (EPICFAIL)
Of course, if they actually have a really easy time de-anonymizing users, they might "leak" a document like this to encourage people to keep using it. Conspiracy theories are fun!
Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it: > Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network? > Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users? At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.
I'm pretty sure Tor does smart peer profiling/selection to optimize for throughput. Lots of people run Tor relays on their silly little home DSLs and Tor still works.