On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Indie Intel <d577a...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Apparently people are spying on Tor users by setting up their own exit nodes > and sniffing traffic?!
For some reason the moral standards people abide to online are unlike the ones they'd apply in other contexts. I'm doubtful Moxie Marlinspike would go around jiggling the doorknobs of his neighbors or hold their mail up in front of candles (or at least do so without fear of having a really bad weekend in a police office as a result). But on line… people do. Oh well, not much we can do about that. It's unfortunate and unlawful for people to monitor or modify exit node traffic. You should not do so. At the same time, _all_ internet users should do what they can to protect themselves. These attacks aren't just limited to Tor: regular ISPs perform them too, and if we can't stop it there we certainly can't stop it for tor. >``research'' is more common than not. Wikileaks, Jacob Appelbaum, It's worth pointing out that Wikileaks and Jacob have refuted and rejected the claims that (at least as far as they could be aware) Wikileaks documents came from sniffing tor exits. Of course, its impossible for anyone to prove they haven't been, and thought its possible to do so no one has proven they did. At best its unfounded rumor, at worse its an active smear. I find it somewhat ironic that you complain about the ethics of obviously well intentioned security researchers while simultaneously spreading a reputation destroying rumour. At least we learned something useful from the sslsniff research that might educate us about building practical secure systems. What did we learn from your post? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
