[tor-talk] Exits: In Crossfire on the Front Lines

[Seth David Schoen]

grarpamp writes:

> [quoting movrcx]
> In today’s cyberwar, Tor exit nodes represent the front line of
> battle. At this location it is possible to directly observe attacks,
> to launch attacks, and to even gather intelligence. An alarming figure
> disclosed by The Intercept’s Micah Lee attributed 40% of the network
> addresses used in the Grizzly Steppe campaign are Tor exit nodes. And
> this is not a good thing.

This is a fairly different angle on what Micah originally wrote.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/the-u-s-government-thinks-thousands-of-russian-hackers-are-reading-my-blog-they-arent/

(His article says that, while it's plausible that these attacks were
sponsored by the Russian government, the IP addresses involved don't
tend to prove that because many of them -- being Tor exit nodes --
could have been used by any attacker.)

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