TOR...koniec prywatności i koniec legendy (?)

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Tytuł jest może kontrowersyjny i zaskakujący, bo TOR (

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) to technologia, która była postrzegana jako azyl dla pełnej anonimowości...niestety ostatnie rewelacje opublikowane po raz pierwszy w niemieckich źródłach wskazują na to, że przestała nią być już dawno temu, a za wszystkim stoi...jak się można domyślać...NSA czyli amerykańska Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego (National Security Agency). Można było o tym przeczytać np.

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To jednak pół biedy, jak się okazuje...artykuł z 16 lipca pt. "Peeling the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government" nie pozostawia raczej złudzeń, jakimi drogami chodziła historia technologii "onion routingu" i samego TOR-a. Kilka cytatów zaledwie, bo historia jest niebywale pokręcona (i to jeszcze po angielsku )

“The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. Because then every time a connection came from it people would say, “Oh, it’s another CIA agent.” If those are the only people using the network.”

—Roger Dingledine, co-founder of the Tor Network, 2004

Let’s start with the basics: Tor was developed, built and financed by the US military-surveillance complex. Tor’s original — and current — purpose is to cloak the online identity of government agents and informants while they are in the field: gathering intelligence, setting up sting operations, giving human intelligence assets a way to report back to their handlers — that kind of thing. This information is out there, but it’s not very well known, and it’s certainly not emphasized by those who promote it.

Peek under Tor’s hood, and you quickly just realize that just everybody involved in developing Tor technology has been and/or still is funded by the Pentagon or related arm of the US empire. That includes Roger Dingledine, who brought the technology to life under a series of military and federal government contracts. Dingledine even spent a summer working at the NSA.

If you read the fine print on Tor’s website, you’ll see that Tor is still very much in active use by the US government:

“A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations.”

NSA? DoD? U.S. Navy? Police surveillance? What the hell is going on? How is it possible that a privacy tool was created by the same military and intelligence agencies that it’s supposed to guard us against? Is it a ruse? A sham? A honeytrap? Maybe I’m just being too paranoid…

Unfortunately, this is not a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. It is cold hard fact.

Dingledine said the same thing a decade earlier at the 2004 Wizards of OS conference in Germany:

“The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. Because then every time a connection came from it people would say, ‘Oh, it’s another CIA agent.’ If those are the only people using the network.”

At the very end of 2004, with Tor technology finally ready for deployment, the US Navy cut most of its Tor funding, released it under an open source license and, oddly, the project was handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The consumer version of Tor would be marketed to everyone and — equally important — would eventually allow anyone to run a Tor node/relay, even from their desktop computer. The idea was to create a massive crowdsourced torrent-style network made up from thousands of volunteers all across the world.

“We funded Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson to work on Tor for a single year from November 2004 through October 2005 for $180,000. We then served as a fiscal sponsor for the project until they got their 501©(3) status over the next year or two.During that time, we took in less than $50,000 for the project,” EFF’s Dave Maass told me by email.

In a December 2004 press release announcing its support for Tor, EFF curiously failed to mention that this anonymity tool was developed primarily for military and intelligence use. Instead, it focused purely on Tor’s ability to protect free speech from oppressive regimes in the Internet age.

In 2013, the Washington Post revealed that the NSA had figured out various ways of unmasking and penetrating the anonymity of the Tor Network.

Since 2006, according to a 49-page research paper titled simply “Tor,” the agency has worked on several methods that, if successful, would allow the NSA to uncloak anonymous traffic on a “wide scale” — effectively by watching communications as they enter and exit the Tor system, rather than trying to follow them inside. One type of attack, for example, would identify users by minute differences in the clock times on their computers.

The evidence came out of Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. It appeared that the surveillance agency had developed several techniques to get at Tor. One of the documents explained that the NSA “pretty much guaranteed to succeed.”

Snowden’s leaks revealed another interesting detail: In 2007, Dingledine gave at a talk at the NSA’s HQ explaining Tor, and how it worked.

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Na TOR ma chrapkę również władza w Rosji...tym razem oficjalnie!! Informacja z Wirtualnej Polski za Sky News

Jak donosi Sky News, rosyjskie Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych ogłosiło konkurs na złamanie zabezpieczeń sieci Tor. Można w nim zdobyć nagrody, ale nie zapominajmy, że jest on organizowany w Rosji - każdy, kto chce wziąć w nim udział, musi zapłacić 195 tysięcy rubli, czyli około 17 tysięcy złotych. Dla pierwszej osoby, organizacji, bądź firmy, której uda się złamać zabezpieczenia, przewidziano nagrodę w wysokości 340 tysięcy złotych (4 milionów rubli).

Rosyjskim urzędnikom należy pogratulować pomysłowości. Nie tylko mogą dostać gotowe rozwiązanie do podsłuchiwania użytkowników Tora, ale również zarobić na organizowanym przez siebie konkursie - wystarczy, żeby wzięło w nim udział więcej niż 20 uczestników (zakładając, że główna nagroda w ogóle zostanie przyznana). Genialne.

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Mówiło się "rosyjska ruletka"...teraz "rosyjska loteria"? Zawsze jest tak, że podobne konkursy i loterie w mediach polegają głównie na wpłatach biorących udział...ale żeby tak zdzierać skórę za wątpliwy efekt?...przecież NSA chyba dobrze sobie TORa zabezpieczyło?