>created and funded by the US Government (fact)
why do idiots trust Tor?
restoreprivacy.com
Remember when the FBI let 200 pedos walk because the FBI refused to tell the court how it got the information on the pedos? yes, that actually happened.
TOR
Noah Gutierrez
Other urls found in this thread:
web.archive.org
metrics.torproject.org
libreboot.org
reuters.com
media.ccc.de
twitter.com
Jacob Nelson
>be in middle of amazon forest, north//south pole
>still spied by satellites
There is no escape
Julian Johnson
total escape is not the point, but knowing what data you're leaking and when, is very important
Dylan Nguyen
I've seen this elsewhere, and it pisses me off. It's the idea that intelligence agencies like the NSA have some form of "magical" capability to instantly crack every encryption scheme known to man because 'you don't know what they're capable of'
Yes I do. I know quite well what they're capable of, and what they're capable of is nowhere near what you claim, simply because of how cryptography and computers work.
Let's look at the cryptography side of things. Any textbook on information security will tell you that secrecy in the true nature of cryptographic algorithms doesn't work. However, wikipedia explains that the history of this goes farther back than one would think.
>It was finally explicitly recognized in the 19th century that secrecy of a cipher's algorithm is not a sensible nor practical safeguard of message security; in fact, it was further realized that any adequate cryptographic scheme (including ciphers) should remain secure even if the adversary fully understands the cipher algorithm itself.
In short, hiding any sort of meta-information about cryptography would be foolish. Cryptography is the ultimate open source, because it requires and benefits from the eyes of everyone.
it also says with regards to modern computer encryption algorithms
>breaking it requires an effort many orders of magnitude larger, and vastly larger than that required for any classical cipher, making cryptanalysis so inefficient and impractical as to be effectively impossible.
In short, no they didn't find some super secret special way to instabreak AES, SHA-512, RSA, or ECC. If you truly believe they did, show some damn evidence.
Leo Morgan
On the computer side, I think people overestimate the how powerful computers are in terms of password and general cryptography breaking, and even more so how powerful the NSA's computers are. Below is a link to an earlier version of the Kaspersky password checker that estimates how long it would take for different types of computers to crack a password, everything from a ZX Spectrum to the TOP500 supercomputer Tianhe-2. Obviously don't type in your real password, but play around with this. You'll find that if your password is even remotely competent and in keeping with industry best practices (20+ characters, atleast 1 lower, upper, number, special char), it would take good ole Tianhe way longer than the average human lifespan to crack it.
web.archive.org
To believe that the NSA can get it done as fast as you claim, you would have to believe that they have computers that would be TOP500-tier. I seriously doubt that.
Noah Barnes
The theory I remember hearing that made sense to me was that the NSA had helped the FBI our with a TOR exploit, then the FBI nabbed some people, and then in court the FBI refused to disclose vulnerability, presumably at the direction of the NSA, becuase if it was revealed in court it would then become public information and get patched by TOR developers and then the NSA would no longer have a very useful vulnerability to deanonymize people. So essentially national security interests of the NSA took precedence over the FBI operation and the successful prosecution of the pedos. iirc the judge instructed that the FBI had to disclose how they caught people to the defence lawyers or the charges would be dropped. Can’t convict people with unreasonable doubt if you don’t even know how they were caught to begin with.
James Flores
Nevergonnagiveyouupnevergonnaletyoudown
>1000plus centuries
I'm safe
Jackson Robinson
>magical
the US government funded and created TOR
Sebastian Bennett
Tor was hijacked by the Alphabet Agencies, they didn't make it. Nothing the government made themselves ever actually works.
Jackson Wilson
>made themselves
they hired people for it, did you read the link you idiot?