Netzpolitik.org (a german news blog focused on politics surrounding the digital world) today released a leak of internal emails and documents of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, german intelligence service). The BND has it's own working group deticated to deanonymizing Tor users since 2008 and cooperates with the NSA and the GCHQ. All three agencies run their own exit nodes. The BND warned other german authorities not to use Tor as it's anonymization is allegedly ineffective.
The BND developed a technique to deanonymize Tor users and gave a prototype of it to the NSA, in expectation of compensation.
So if tor was already broken, why are they trying to break it?
Brandon Ramirez
>in expectation of compensation. Idiots. I kinda doubt its effectiveness though.
David Carter
Wasn't Tor developed by the navy?
Alexander Roberts
>The bulk of the funding for Tor's development has come from the federal government of the United States, initially through the Office of Naval Research and DARPA.
Joseph Butler
the gov as was the internet yeah
Anthony Powell
Fuck tor. They are fine with drug dealers, assassins and thieves but not right wingers. I hope it gets taken out.
Joseph Murphy
Yeah, remember that time they banned people with right wing politics from using tor? Me neither, but lets be retarded anyway.
Isaac Roberts
You mean individuals.
Carter Taylor
Things that never happened for 500, Alex.
Aaron Murphy
Isn't like half the tor nodes run by NSA?
John King
No.
Jack Sanchez
are you sure?
Xavier Phillips
No.
Levi Lee
This was well known ever since silk road was taken down.
Landon Parker
> in expectation of compensation lel
Tyler Russell
What some people may forget when thinking about all this - this attack vector got described in the tor documentation really early, years before this stuff here happened. If you control enough nodes and the ISPs, its easy to do so. Thats not magic or something, you just need to be not totally retarded to do so.
Zachary Wood
I think they are talking about the daily stormer
Kayden Gutierrez
What are the best countries not in 14 eyes that have good internet/etc freedoms?
Nicholas Watson
Tor is a invention of german intelligent sevices.
Jace Barnes
>no information in English >can't even read about how it compares to the previous attacks demonstrated by academics Must not be an issue then.
