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Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

2013-10-04 21:20:53| InfoWorld: Top News

The U.S. National Security Agency has repeatedly tried to compromise Tor, the government-funded online anonymity tool, but has had little success, according to a new report in the U.K.'s Guardian.

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Tor usage doubles in wake of secure email shutdowns, arrival of PirateBrowser

2013-08-29 13:08:40| InfoWorld: Top News

The Tor anonymity network is enjoying a massive uptick in popularity after two significant privacy-minded events took place earlier this month

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FBI Attack on Child Porn Sites May Have Blown Tor Users' Cover

2013-08-05 23:52:52| TechNewsWorld

Ireland-based Freedom Hosting, which hosted several servers on the Tor Project's hidden network, has been taken down through a vulnerability in the Firefox browser -- and the FBI is widely suspected of being the attacker. The FBI reportedly is seeking to extradite Freedom Hosting's owner, Eric Eoin Marques, to the United States to face charges of running a huge child porn network.

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Tor Browser Bundle for Windows users susceptible to info-stealing attack

2013-08-05 21:24:54| InfoWorld: Top News

Users running the Firefox-based Tor Browser Bundle for Windows are being targeted by an attack that lets the perpetrator snag victims' host names and MAC addresses or even take over their systems, according to the of

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