[liberationtech] Freedom Hosting, Tormail Compromised // OnionCloud

[Nadim Kobeissi]

On 2013-08-05, at 6:38 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:54:00AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> Specifically, it would appear that the TBB updates we put out on
>> June 26 addressed this vulnerability:
> 
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2013-August/000089.html
> has some more details now.
> 
> Or see
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-old-tor-browser-bundles-vulnerable
> if you prefer blog posts. :)

Awesome! :-)
This is one of those situations that, frustratingly, could have been dealt with better, but Roger and co. deliver in the end, as is tradition.

Tor remains an awesome project. The FBI is the likely perpetrator of the exploit and this should really wake up the privacy community.

NK

> 
> --Roger
> 
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