[liberationtech] NSA targets the privacy-conscious

[Maxim Kammerer]

> The appid rule for MixMinion
> is extremely broad as it matches all traffic to or from the IP address
> 128.31.0.34, a server located on the MIT campus.
>
> That server is operated by the Tor Project's leader Roger Dingledine, an MIT
> alumnus. The machine at this IP address provides many services besides
> MixMinion, and it is also one of the above-mentioned Tor directory
> authorities. Dingledine said "That computer hosts many websites, ranging from
> open source gaming libraries to the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
> website."

I am yet to see any actual research based on Snowden's leaks, as
opposed to publicity by association that is based on exclusive access
to the leaks. For instance, the quote above shows reckless attitude of
Tor's operators towards side-channel attacks, but it also shows an
opportunity to locate an NSA software side-channel attack bug aimed at
decrypting directory service traffic. Hopefully, one day we will see
some analysis of NSA attacks in the wild.

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Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte