Friday, 10. June 2011
Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2011 at 8:31:00 AM CEST
A Primer on Wikileaks Espionage on TOR Exit Nodes
In 2007, Dan Egerstad, Swedish security researcher, exposed how the Tor network could easily be used for intelligence gathering: [1]
``Dan Egerstad is a Swedish security researcher; he ran five Tor nodes. Last month, he posted a list of 100 e-mail credentials -- server IP addresses, e-mail accounts and the corresponding passwords -- for embassies and government ministries around the globe, all obtained by sniffing exit traffic for usernames and passwords of e-mail servers.''
... Comment
