A security researcher intercepted thousands of private e-mail messages sent by foreign embassies and human rights groups around the world by turning portions of the Tor internet anonymity service into his own private listening post.
A little over a week ago, Swedish computer security consultant Dan Egerstad posted the user names and passwords for 100 e-mail accounts used by the victims, but didn't say how he obtained them. He revealed Friday that he intercepted the information by hosting five Tor exit nodes placed in different locations on the internet as a research project.
I always knew all of that was crap.
I always knew all of that was crap.
Chairman of Sun Microsystems agreed with you in 1999. He kicked up a storm by saying:
"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it."
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I was watching one of those action movies the other day, and they were trying to trace the 'bad guys' connection.
as they were tracing, they said
"It says he's calling from New York! Wait.. now it says he's in Africa! What the hell, his connection is being bounced all over the world!"
then I said.. "damn! that guy must be using Tor!"
my brother started laughing but no one else got it
sorry, this post just reminded me of that
PS; using Tor is bad. making your connection go through other users computers = not good..