If you're using Linux and Tor, check for a security update. A chap called Julian Jackson found that it was possible, on some Linux systems, for a malicious URL to make Firefox bypass the Tor network and reveal the user's public IP address. Meanwhile, the Tor Project this week pushed out a security fix following an interesting discovery reported via its new bug bounty program. Intelligence agencies didn’t need to set up their own stepping-stone nodes he said, since they could – if they wanted to – just monitor those who did run them. Leaks from the whistleblower Edward Snowden showed that yes, a number of nodes had been run by government snoops, Dingledine said, but not very many – not enough to compromise the integrity of the mesh.ĭingledine said that he knew about two thirds of the people running Tor relays and could vouch for them.

He also sought to calm those who fear that the world’s intelligence agencies have infiltrated the network by running large numbers of relay nodes in order to unmask Tor users. The Tor Project has announced that the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to let go of '13 great people' that it says help make Tor available to millions of Internet users around the world.

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