[tor-talk] Rumors of Tor's compromise

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 21:34:03 UTC 2011


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Julian Yon <julian at yon.org.uk> wrote:
> If you're not using a
> pseudonym and paying by cash in sealed envelopes through a postal proxy,
> wearing disposable gloves in a clean room to avoid forensic evidence,
> then you could be traced. Whether this is likely depends on who your
> adversary is.

Or I could make your software start spewing an inexplicable and novel
error message— and then I look to see who googles for that error
message.

Operational security is hard, and also not something tor can fix.


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