The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat conference has been removed

Post by dllthomas » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 5:56 AM UTC

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #33

toyg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a University who doesn't want to get sued / get bad publicity for screwing with a tool used by government agencies...

Legality aside, I'm surprised this wasn't pulled on ethical grounds. Does Black Hat not require "researchers" to follow responsible/coordinated disclosure? What about the political dissidents who use Tor? They could be at risk of certain death if caught by the authoritarian regimes they live under. Without coordinated disclosure, the "researchers" might as well have been signing death warrants.

"at risk of certain death"

That's an odd construction...

Post by tete » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 1:05 PM UTC

orbifold wrote: post #47

gweinberg wrote: post #23

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No it wouldn't. How is it possibly helpful to the security establishment if I use tor for what is essentially an innocuous purpose?

It helps them because they are using the service for covert operations. If they were the only ones using it, it would be useless to them. They did very cleverly position it as an instrument for dissidents and at the same time told the generals that this would actually be an advantage. On top of that the NSA is known to successfully target Tor users. If you are really doing something that is against US security intere…

The same thing can be said about the internet as a whole, even more so.

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