Posted on 08/05/2013 11:13:27 AM PDT by markomalley
Tor users visiting secret sites hosted by Freedom Hosting early Sunday morning weren’t able to reach their desired destinations. Instead they were met with a “Down for Maintenance” notice and, if they had javascript enabled, malware that could effectively identify Tor users. The Internet is wild with speculation that malware was planted by the FBI. And that isn’t as paranoid as you might think.
Eric Eoin Marques, the man believed to be behind Freedom Hosting, was arrested in Ireland Thursday and is currently awaiting extradition to the U.S. on child pornography charges. While Freedom Hosting was the largest hosting service for secret .onion sites and used for things like the secret e-mail service TorMail, it was also infamous for hosting sites that included depictions of the rape and torture of pre-pubescent children. Taking down the hosting service may have removed some half of the hidden sites accessible through the Tor network.
A lot of people know that you can use Tor to browse the Internet anonymously. This works by routing traffic through several randomly-selected computers in the Tor networks. Web site operators can use the same technique to hide the location of their servers. This can be for illicit purposes like child pornography or dealing drugs. However, Tor’s “hidden service” capability can also be a boon to political activists, whistleblowers, and journalists who want to publish anonymously.
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Update: According to Baneki Privacy Labs research, the IP address 65.222.202.53 hardcoded into the exploit belongs to Virginia is actually owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a major intelligence, military, aerospace, engineering and systems contractor involved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) , Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA).
They believe that the hardcoded IP address is directly allocated to the NSA's Autonomous Systems (AS), so its probably not the FBI, its NSA who used Firefox Zero-Day exploit to compromise Freedom Hosting and TOR network.
Author: Mohit Kumar
News that PC contractor employees would want to distract from. And yeah—that Oxford, the one with the University and the mosques.
The Oxford sex ring and the preachers who teach young Muslim men that white girls are cheap
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