[tor-talk] Facebook brute forcing hidden services

[David Rajchenbach-Teller]

That article is extremely vague. Can someone explain exactly what
happened for someone like me who has very limited understanding of Tor?

Thanks,
 David

On 31/10/14 13:23, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237
> 
> So Facebook have managed to brute force a hidden service key for:
> 
> http://facebookcorewwwi.onion/ 
> 
> If they have the resources to do that, what's to stop them brute
> forcing a key for any other existing hidden service?
> 
> 
> 


-- 
David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD
 Performance Team, Mozilla

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