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Is TOR compromised? (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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All the recent dark net arrests seem to be pretty vague on how the big bad was caught (except the IM admin's silly opsec errors) In the article they say he clicked on a honeypot link, but how was his ip or any other identifier identified, why didnt tor protect him.

Obviously this guy in question was a pedophile and an active danger, but recently in my country a state passed a law that can get you arrested if you post anything the government doesnt like, so these tools are important and need to be bulletproof.

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[–] pudcollar@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

NSA in Amerikkka has been targeting the tor browser and flagging tor traffic for a long time. They will toss intercepts to law enforcement occasionally to be used through parallel construction. They're fond of backdooring security software and hardware and sneaking it into the supply chain.

[–] DisgracedDoctor@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How hard is it to implement a backdoor in a fully opensource project? (Assuming the project in question has a lot more eyes on it then an overworked developer)

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Pretty much impossible, especially with so many eyes on the project. It is possible to intentionally introduce vulnerabilities into open source code and use that as a backdoor but for projects like tor keeping that hidden for long periods of time is incredibly difficult due to the number of people independently auditing the code.

[–] pudcollar@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Hard but not impossible. It's been done. XZ Utils, phpmyadmin, OpenBSD's IPSEC stack