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    Tor and the Dark Art of Anonymity
    Tor and the Dark Art of Anonymity
    Tor and the Dark Art of Anonymity
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    Tor and the Dark Art of Anonymity

    By Lance Henderson

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    The verdict is in: It's 1984 and the surveillance powers that be possess a special hatred for individual thought, free speech and online privacy. That means most 3 letter agencies as well as most Big Brother groups like Google, Facebook and Twitter. You're being tracked left, right and center. Today's written word will be used against you in the future.

    Don't let a tyrannical future bite you in your backside. It's time to FIGHT BACK. Be the Man Who Wasn't There.

    Other books tell you to install this or that and leave it at that. This book goes much deeper, delving into the very heart of invisibility, offline and on: how to create a new darknet persona and leave no electronic trail. In essence, how to be anonymous without looking like you're trying to be anonymous.

    Covered: Darknet Marketplaces & Opsec - Why Silk Road Failed - Cryptocurrency - The Hidden Wiki - What To Do If Caught - How to Run a Hidden Server on the Deep Web - Linux Encryption & Mobile Tor - Darknet Personas - Police Raids; How to Survive a Police Interrogation - How Hacking Groups like Anonymous and Reloaded stay hidden. Opsec for dealing in exotic contraband. Cybersecurity secrets... And much more!

    Don't wait. Now is the time. Read today and take anonymity to the next level. Because tomorrow may be too late.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLance Henderson
    Release dateAug 24, 2022
    ISBN9798201021887

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      Tor and the Dark Art of Anonymity - Lance Henderson

      Is Tor Safe?

      THAT SEEMS TO BE THE question alright. As to what the true answer is, it really depends on whom you ask, because there are always wolves in sheep's clothing out there who stand to gain from your ignorance. Many say no. A few say yes. The media, for all their expertise in things political and social, come up woefully lacking when something as complex as Tor is discussed.

      Case in point: Gizmodo reported that a group of hackers managed to compromise enough Tor relays to decloak Tor users. If you're just hearing this for the first time, part of what makes Tor anonymous is that it relays your data from one node to another. It was believed that if they compromised enough of them, then they could track individual users on the Tor network and reveal their real life identities. Kind of like how the agents in The Matrix find those who've been unplugged.

      Anyway as luck would have it, it turned out to be kiddie script-hackers with too much time on their hands who simply wanted a new target to hack. Who knows why. Could be that they'd toyed with the Playstation Network long enough and simply wanted a curious peak here and there. These were not superhacker-level NSA members, either.

      But as is usually the case with the media, this attack attracted the attention of a few bloggers and tech journalists unsympathetic to Tor and frankly, ignorant of what really constitutes a threat. The Tor devs commented on it, too:

      This looks like a regular attempt at a Sybil attack: the attackers have signed up many new relays in hopes of becoming a large fraction of the network. But even though they are running thousands of new relays, their relays currently make up less than 1% of the Tor network by capacity. We are working now to remove these relays from the network before they become a threat, and we don't expect any anonymity or performance effects based on what we've seen so far.

      What those conspiracy bloggers failed to report was that any decentralized network like Tor is a prime target for attacks such as the above. But to truly stand a chance at punching a hole through this matrix, hackers would need Tor to implicitly trust every new node that comes online. That just doesn't happen.

      It also takes time for fresh relays to gather traffic - some as long as sixty days or more and the likelihood of being reported is rather high since the IP addresses are out in the open, which only speeds up malicious reporting. The real danger, and has been since inception, is scaring Tor users to less secure methods of communication. That's what the NSA wants. The CIA already does this in foreign countries. Now the NSA is following their lead.

      The REAL Risk of Using

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