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[–] drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Man I'm not going to dive into it but this reads like a FUD piece and I know the article explicitly calls out people who dismiss evidence as FUD, but please read just the first point that 'Tor is compromised':

the agency has worked on several methods that, if successful, would allow the NSA to uncloak anonymous traffic

If succesful, implying that they haven't been. I'd love to read the paper but I'm European and they block me from clicking it, citing GDPR issues :-)

promised to reveal how a $3,000 piece of kit could unmask the IP addresses of Tor hidden services as well as their users.

a much anticipated talk at the Black Hat hacking conference was abruptly canceled.

The university cancelled the speech and cited no reasons but I can think of several legal ones even if the device didn't work. No proof.

the FBI is able to de-anonymize Tor users and discover their real IP address remains classified information. In a 2017 court case, the FBI refused to divulge how it was able to do this,

I can fly. No, I don't have to prove it.

[–] Wobble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

Nice work pulling this. Informative!

The FBI will never reveal if they can or cannot deanonymise someone or Tor

[–] pirat@lemmy.studio 1 points 5 days ago

seems like all the links for the paper are dead...

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

the FBI is able to de-anonymize Tor users and discover their real IP address remains classified information. In a 2017 court case, the FBI refused to divulge how it was able to do this,

I can fly. No, I don't have to prove it.

And did you know that Medbeds exist, and "they" are keeping them from people, because they're actually in league with Satan?

/s

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago

A lot of those correlation attacks seem to imply exiting the network for the standard internet (3 hops), where if you access a hidden service (6 hops), you never actually exit the Tor network to begin with.

I think some of this definitely needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.