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hacker attack against Tor, the anonymous Internet

The system that allows the incognito ends targeted by Lizard Squad, the group of hackers that December 25 knocked out the Playstation Network and Xbox Live. A risk to user privacy

27/12/2014

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We will remember Christmas 2014 as one of the first real cyberwar to have made virtual victims among ordinary users. After the attack of December 25, the network of PlayStation and Xbox, which for several hours have not been able to connect with each other online gamers, hackers Lizard Squad returned to hit the Boxing Day. This time, however, the goal is Tor anonymous communication system which in the past has won the headlines as privileged access to the dark side of the web.

The attack was announced on Twitter byLizardMafia, a user who claims to be part of the collective Lizard Squad, and confirmed by the staff of the Tor Project, which excluded repercussions on anonymity of its members. It is precisely on this point, however, that has not yet been made sufficiently clear.

What is Tor?

When it comes to Tor we refer to two different things: a network designed to keep anonymous every business online and software that allows sending encrypted data through the so-called network Onion (because of its structure in overlapping layers). The Development Director Karen Reilly, told Mashable the functioning of this communication system with a metaphor: “Your message is in an envelope, which is located in an envelope, in an envelope, which is in another envelope, that is inside an envelope. ”

Tor hides your IP address, that number that identifies the network, allowing us to navigate without being traced. Not being able to be placed on a map, we can not be identified. The system, designed initially by the US Naval Research Laboratory as a conduit for sensitive information, is now accessible to any user.

Tor has made quite a stir for its links with drug trafficking and child pornography on the internet, however, is not in itself illegal: it is a medium that can be used for legitimate purposes or not, but the latter are to be prosecuted.

What are the risks of an attack?

On TwitterLizardMafia wrote that Tor is operated only by pedophiles, hackers and criminals: puncturing layers of the onion, users could be identified. But the reasoning of the hacker does not consider, or perhaps deliberately omits the other end that is used Tor: allow those who live in countries with a strong censorship to communicate and exchange information without being identified by their governments.

It should be noted in the Tor also to have been involved in events noblest of the sale of drugs. Like when Edward Snowden gave reporters Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald information on surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (Aphex Twin and a few months ago, one of the most important electronic musician of recent times, it has used for the launch campaign of his last record). It is no coincidence then that yesterday the activist group Anonymous has mobilized in defense of Tor, of which “people need because of corrupt governments.”

But there is a network really safe?

There are many tools that provide protection, encrypted by search engines like DuckDuckGo, systems to find out which are the companies that collect information about us, as Floodwatch. But Tor, until Friday, has always been the safest of all. The affair has reopened as an issue never resolved: there is an internet really safe? The answer, once again, provides the Karen Reilly: “Any tool that claims to be able to guarantee 100% security at all times is not telling the truth.”

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