Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail

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First time accepted submitter elysiuan writes "The founder of Freedom Hosting has been arrested in Ireland and is awaiting extradition to USA. In a crackdown the FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half of the onion sites in the TOR network have been compromised, including the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail. The FBI has also embedded a 0-day Javascript attack against Firefox 17 on Freedom Hosting's server. It appears to install a tracking cookie and a payload that phones home to the FBI when the victim resumes non-TOR browsing. Interesting implications for The Silk Road and the value of Bitcoin stemming from this. The attack relies on two extremely unsafe practices when using TOR: Enabled Javascript, and using the same browser for TOR and non-TOR browsing. Any users accessing a Freedom Hosting hosted site since 8/2 with javascript enabled are potentially compromised." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Half+of+Tor+Sites+Compromised%2C+Inclu ding+TORMail%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F12Syyc2) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory %2F13%2F08%2F04%2F2054208%2Fhalf-of-tor-sites-compromised-including-tormail%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfac ebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08/04/2054208/half-of-tor-sites-compromised-including-tormail?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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