MIT researchers can break Tor anonymity without even touching encryption

[Wireless News]

Before the arrest of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht made headlines a few years ago, most everyday web users-had never heard of Tor. Originally developed by US Naval Research Laboratory employees, Tor (an acronym for “The Onion Router”)-is a popular piece of software designed to enable truly anonymous communications online. Today, it’s estimated that approximately 2.5 million users use Tor on a daily basis. DON’T MISS:-Why does every Android phone company think it can be Apple? Highlighting Tor’s robust privacy features, a leaked NSA presentation titled ‘Tor Stinks’, courtesy of Edward Snowden of course, reads in part: We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time. With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction

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