Wednesday, 2. June 2010
Topic: SECURITY - on June 2, 2010 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor
WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder.
The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor, also known as “The Onion Router,” a sophisticated privacy tool that lets users navigate and send documents through the internet anonymously.
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