[tor-relays] [Important] Update on an upcoming German broadcasting story about Tor/Onion Services

[Florian Kohrt]

Hi all,

Today, NDR issued a press release with more details on the subject:

https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/Ermittlungen-im-sogenannten-Darknet-Strafverfolger-hebeln-Tor-Anonymisierung-aus,pressemeldungndr24724.html

It mentions that the (German) Federal Criminal Police Office identified 
twice the respective node that connected a suspect to Tor, and twice the 
entry node used by the Ricochet messenger.

It cites multiple sources who claim to know about broad surveillance 
measures against Tor servers. Matthias Marx, spokesperson of the Chaos 
Computer Club, is quoted that together with the documents obtained by 
the journalists this suggests that timing attacks were indeed 
successfully committed.

There is also a front page article on Tagesschau.de with largely the 
same information:

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/tor-netzwerk-100.html

Later today, further reports are to be expected by Panorama and STRG_F, 
which should become available here:

https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/

https://play.funk.net/channel/strgf-11384

-- Florian