> On 10/9/2013 10:27 AM, Lunar wrote: >> ======================================================================== >> Tor Weekly News October 9th, 2013 >> ======================================================================== >> >> Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter >> that covers what's happening in the world of Tor — “king of high-secure, >> low-latency anonymity” [1]. >> >> [1] >> http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-high-secure-internet-anonymity >> >> New tranche of NSA/GCHQ Tor documents released >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> ... a series of stories were published >> in the Guardian and the Washington Post that detailed alleged attempts >> by NSA, GCHQ, and their allies to defeat or circumvent the protection >> that Tor offers its users. ... >> >> The documents in question [3] offer,... a summary of >> attacks against Tor users and the network as a whole that they have >> considered or carried out. >> > I'm sure Tor developers have considered the real possibility that some > or all of what different agencies release, about their capabilities & > successes (or lack of) against Tor - or anything else, is > misinformation, designed to make the Tor Project AND users more > comfortable in continuing to use TBB. > > Logically, if any agency or adversary divulged they can somewhat > successfully track users or "infiltrate the system," then most would > stop using it and a valuable method to gather information or catch > "criminals" would cease to exist. Good poker players and gov'ts NEVER > reveal their hands. > > I wouldn't take seriously anything that ANY gov't publicly reveals about > their technology or intelligence capability (or lack there or). Over a > long history, it's been repeatedly shown that advanced gov'ts always > know more & have more technology capability, than is revealed. That is, > often until decades later, when the real truth comes out. It's no > different now.
So to be clear, your position is that Edward Snowden is still loyal to NSA, and is releasing misinformation according to a plan of their own design? It's perfectly true that they may have capabilities beyond those described in the leaked documents, as I think at least one of Roger's responses highlighted... -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
