Sources? Links? Otherwise why conjecture & possibilities? > On Jul 13, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Nick Levinson <nick_levin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > The FBI reportedly cracked Tor's security to crack a child porn case with > over 100 arrests of Tor users. I don't know how the FBI did it, and that's a > good type of case for which to do it, but, considering that legitimate users > need to evade high-end intelligence agencies that may be as skilled as the > FBI and less friendly, it's worth discussing how the FBI might have done it. > The news story didn't say what specific exploit it used. I forgot the news > citation. > > But one clue might be that the FBI can read Bugzilla posts for whichever > browser Tor uses (Firefox now) to catalogue security flaws various people > have discovered and reported. Some reports and responses are confidential but > hacking those Bugzillas may be a priority for a hundred or more foreign > intelligence agencies, most of whom are probably more skilled at cracking > than Mozilla (or whomever) is at defending. It's also possible that a > security flaw for another browser might be something to test for whether > Firefox has a similar flaw. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
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