French researchers from ESIEA <http://www.esiea.fr/c/en/Web.Esiea.Public.cuke?>, a French engineering school, have
found and exploited some serious vulnerabilities in the TOR network. They performed an inventory of the network,
finding 6,000
machines, many of whose IPs are accessible publicly and directly with the system’s source code. They demonstrated
that it is possible to take control of the network and read all the messages that circulate.
But there are also hidden nodes, the Tor Bridges, which are provided by the system that in some cases. Researchers
have developed a script that, once again, to identify them. They found 181. "/We now have a complete picture of the
topography of
Tor/," said Eric Filiol.
Read More at "The Hacker News" -- http://thehackernews.com/2011/10/tor-anonymizing-network-compromised-by.html
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