Can you trust Tor’s hidden service directories?

  • 7 September 2016
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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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I would not trust Tor full stop given that we know that it is used by some particularly unpleasent and nefarious miscreants to pdeal their wares and to undertake their unsavoury practices.

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