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Date:   2014-11-10T17:25:47+00:00

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 Welcome to the forty-fifth issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
 newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
 
-Feature XXX
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+Tor and Operation Onymous
+-------------------------
 
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+An international coalition of law enforcement authorities
+announced [XXX] the seizure of over 400 Tor hidden services allegedly
+engaging in illegal activity. Once the desired headlines had been
+written, something approaching the facts began to emerge, with the
+claimed number of seized services dropping sharply to 27 [XXX]; more
+troublingly, several high-capacity Tor relays with no connection to the
+hidden services were also seized [XXX, XXX]. However, in contrast to the
+last major takedown of hidden services [XXX], which was probably
+attributable to carelessness by the operators of a shared hidden service
+hosting platform, there was no obvious single feature linking all of the
+seized sites, leading to concern in the Tor community that an exploit
+against the Tor network may have been responsible for their discovery.
 
- [XXX]:
+It could be that these services were deanonymized individually over a
+period of months using a variety of means, then all seized at once for
+maximum effect: as Andrew Lewman and others wrote in a response posted
+to the Tor blog [XXX], these methods could include operational security
+mistakes by service operators, exploitation of flaws in poorly-written
+website code, or attacks on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency that is widely
+used on hidden service marketplaces. On the other hand, if an attack on
+the Tor network itself is at play, it may be a variant of the class of
+attack known as “traffic confirmation”, like the one observed earlier
+this year [XXX]. “Unfortunately,” as the blog post notes, ”the
+authorities did not specify how they managed to locate the hidden
+services”; even if they had, recent disclosures concerning “parallel
+construction” in law enforcement [XXX] mean that the public would not
+necessarily be able to trust their explanation.
+
+“Hidden services need some love” has become a familiar refrain in recent
+months, and even though the story behind these seizures may remain
+unknown, they have reinvigorated some long-running discussions of
+possible improvements to the security of this important technology.
+
+[XXX will continue]
+
+ [XXX]: https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/global-action-against-dark-markets-tor-network
+ [XXX]: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/oops-we-counted-wrong-silk-road-dark-net-tor/
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torservers.net/20141109/three-servers-offline-likely-seized.html
+ [XXX]: https://raided4tor.wordpress.com/
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2014-August/000057.html
+ [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
 
 Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
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