7th September 2016 by Mark Stockley
Researchers have revealed a new vulnerability in the design of Tor, the world’s favourite weapons-grade privacy tool.
In their presentation, Non-Hidden Hidden Services Considered Harmful, given at the recent Hack in the Box conference, Filippo Valsorda and George Tankersley showed that a critical component of the Dark Web, Tor’s Hidden Service Directories (HSDirs), could be turned against users.
Targeting HSDirs is so easy that the researchers suggest you should avoid the Dark Web if you really care about your anonymity.
According to Valsorda and Tankersley:
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