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A top secret slide show by the National Security Agency shows how the US government has been trying to compromise the Tor network, a tool that allows people to communicate anonymously on the internet.
The slide show, published by the Guardian is the latest in a series of leaks from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The Tor technology it describes was, ironically, largely paid for by the US government as a way to provide a private communication system for the military and for dissidents to escape surveillance.
Tor itself stands for The Onion Router. It relies on a system of encryption and bouncing messages around different servers in order to ensure Tor users’ communications are invisible and untraceable.
According to the slides, the NSA has been trying to lure Tor traffic to specific servers that it controls, and to get into users’ computers directly so as to compromise their web browser. It includes photos like this: (
Reports about the slide show suggest that the Tor network itself is not compromised, and is still effective as a secret communications system. But the NSA’s efforts to burrow into it have caused outrage...
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