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.) -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk