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End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise (wired.com)
17 points by nickb on Sept 14, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Misleading title. Tor promises an anonymous source IP and nothing more. Its still good for that application.


This is a known issue with Tor. It doesn't encrypt data, it just anonymizes it. If you put unencrypted info in Tor, it comes out on the other side unencrypted.




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