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NSA targeted Firefox flaws to break TOR communications

article published on 8 October, 2013

According to leaked documents, the National Security Agency (NSA) targeted flaws in the Firefox web browser to attempt to descramble communications over TOR. The Onion Router - or TOR - is a network that seeks to provide anonymity to users communications either within the network, or with servers based on the Internet. When visiting a website through a browser configured to use TOR, the ... [ read the full article ]

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A5J4DX
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_ 		8. October 2013 @ 17:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Mrguss
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_ 		8. October 2013 @ 17:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
NSA spy machine can target individuals with browser exploits, but if they attack too many users, somebody's going to notice.

Tor Q&A page:
http://tor.stackexchange.com

ALSO: NSA attempted to de-anonymize Tor, with little success:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/nsa-tor-cr...snowden-slides/
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Originally posted by A5J4DX:
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A5J4DX, he does have a point about your posts as all of them are in the news comments & none in the other forums. except for your reply to this, don't post in the news forum for the next year or be banned.
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xtago
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It's hard to say really, maybe to get access to servers within the TOR network it'd be quite hard but in and out torrent packet trackers prove it's not hard to find people who do use TOR and/or encrypt the packets as well.
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_ 		15. October 2013 @ 13:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"The U.S. Government claims that it is an undeniable fact that TOR and similar services are used by adversaries to communicate."

Really ? Who are these adversaries they are talking about? Why do I need torrent network to communicate? BitTorrentSynch can do the job perfectly. I can put an encrypted document in a predefined folder on my machine. I could then send the pass word to the recipient in a manner that handles "for your eyes only" in a sort of face to face meeting or written communication. The transfer of files will happen without any other servers coming into the picture.

Believe me I have worked out a method that can encrypt a file and can never be decrypted by even the most powerful MSA servers. This too while just using available freeware encryption tools.
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