Re: Re: Rise of the Dark Nets   
     By: S/370 to Khelair on Mon Aug 26 2013 03:02:27   
      
    > That's the thing. Considering that the US Navy originally developed tor, I   
    > wouldn't be surprised if a good number of the exit nodes are run by the US   
    > government. But personallly I haven't heard any stories of people being bust   
    > on tor (yet), so maybe its safer than it looks. Nevertheless, someone mentio   
    > I2P so I'll try reading more about that.   
      
       Yeah, I've thought about the exit node issue, too.  After all, that's how a   
   good portion of the wikileaks information got pwned, too.  If you'll remember,   
   Assange came on the scene, and it's not like you can just advertise "Leak all   
   your info to us!  Be the first!"  When they got on the scene they already had   
   millions of leaked cables and documents.  It was from running tor exit nodes.    
   Thing about that is that you still can't determine the original sender's IP   
   from the information that flows from them, so if you are careful enough with   
   your online habits, you've still got a decent degree of protection.  Using tor   
   alone really isn't a good defense if you're still logging in to the same   
   accounts, with the same passwords, from the same location, etc etc etc.  Tor's   
   site has a lot of documentation about proper usage of it that is pretty   
   valuable.   
       Unfortunately, I just came across the news yesterday that the NSA has made   
   some massive, but thoroughly unspecific, advances in decrypting common   
   encrypted data.  So it doesn't really specify if that is for SSL/SSH/PGP, or   
   what, but it really should make a person reconsider what they're willing to   
   commit to digital media in the first place.  I can't find the exact link that I   
   first read it at, but here is one referencing the same information that came   
   courtesy of Ed Snowden: http://tinyurl.com/oc3avnp  Needless to say, I'm   
   reassessing my previous assertions that the PGP 2.3a algorithm, even, is still   
   an issue for the NSA to crack.   
       Came across this while I was looking for that last link, too.  Ugh I closed   
   the link but it should be easy enough to google.  Looks like anybody with   
   decent sniffing capabilities on your data can get through SSL pretty easily.   
       Oh as far as people being busted on tor, also...  Look up the massive wave   
   of child porn busts that the federal government made not too long ago.  Those   
   were all related to federal interception of tor data and/or bitcoin data.   
      
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