The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users

[JohnQPublic]

The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users (http://www.wired.com/2014/12/fbi-metasploit-tor/)

[EE_]

The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users (http://www.wired.com/2014/12/fbi-metasploit-tor/)

Is this bitcoin positive?

[Ares]

The technique they talk about is an OLD one. I've known about it since 2008 - 2009. Even by those standards back then it was considered old and outdated. I think for Tor anonymity it might actually devolve into text based instead of HTML rendering. Remove the complexity of rendering a webpage, you greatly reduce the holes that are available for exploit.

[mick silver]

once you click on the link it download to your computer and take over . just kidding . they have many way to do what they are doing

[Ares]

once you click on the link it download to your computer and take over . just kidding . they have many way to do what they are doing

Yep, rendering a webpage in a browser calls a lot of processes and functions. Anyone could be vulnerable. Why I made the comment to just viewing it in text. Something like the old Unix Bourne shell that were popular back in the day.

[Glass]

Yep, rendering a webpage in a browser calls a lot of processes and functions. Anyone could be vulnerable. Why I made the comment to just viewing it in text. Something like the old Unix Bourne shell that were popular back in the day.

lynx, still http I suppose but all those JIT compiler vulnerabilities are gone. Gopher perhaps.