[tor-talk] Is this a practical vulnerability?

Lee Whitney lee at whitneyland.com
Fri Oct 19 14:40:22 UTC 2012


There are actually two possible explanations for what you saw:
	1)  Tor was compromised
	2)  Your IP was discovered

Maybe the test request you made logged your IP and then it could be
anywhere.  Also as you know people are constantly scanning subnets for
servers.

I don't discount government snooping, it just seems a little crude for
them to be tripping alarm bells on a small unknown target.


On 10/19/12 5:25 AM, "Anon Mus" <my.green.lantern at googlemail.com> wrote:
>Having  a static IP net connection, I set up a test web site as a Tor
>service on a Tor middleman server. That server had been a middleman
>server for about a year, no problems, no attempts to hack it in all that
>time.
>
>Within 24hrs of making that Tor hidden service live I could see, in my
>firewall logs, hundreds of repeated attempts trying to hack my server,
>directly from the internet, not via my hidden Tot service. 




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