Security News > 2016 > July > Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Designed to Spy on Hidden Services (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-08 12:01
Two researchers have discovered over 100 Tor nodes that are spying on hidden services. Cory Doctorow explains: These nodes -- ordinary nodes, not exit nodes -- sorted through all the traffic that passed through them, looking for anything bound for a hidden service, which allowed them to discover hidden services that had not been advertised. These nodes then attacked the...
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