The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis to figure out who is using what relay. T…
The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis to figure out who is using what relay.
Tor has written about this.
Hacker News thread.
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Bad post.
A: old news
B: missing important context
C: Most likely partially fabricated by law enforcement according to many experts and the tor project. They didnt execute a full timing attack because they are not capable of doing that.
Thanks for this.
Yeah not sure why OP felt the need to use such a click-bait title.
Maybe OP is part of a law enforcement entity!!
I doubt it. I think OP wanted upvotes and didn’t read carefully. Something like “tor user de-anonymized via retired app” would of been more accurate.
This is another great lesson that even the best privacy tools can’t protect a user from their own bad opsec.
It just sucks as a lot of Lemmy users will just read the title and assume its true and then tell their friends tor is no longer safe.
German feds cant maintain proper posture against russia so these limp dick cucks need some good PR?
They say not given full access, so post from tor may not full picture.
In interview daniel moßbrucker say that onion v3 was affect 2 time, so not only ricochet.
Source for expert saying it fabricated?
Source for government not capable of timing attack?
Want to read up on more opinion on this.
edit: if daniel moßbrucker trustworthy. might also fabricate story.