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Tor Fact #1: Tor privately tips off the federal government to security vulnerabilities before alerting the public https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/claim-tor-does-not-provide-backdoors-to-the-u-s-government …pic.twitter.com/RB1PaD8QyZ
I couldn't respond in a tweet, so I wrote my comments in a blogpost: http://blog.erratasec.com/2018/03/askrob-does-tor-let-government-peek-at.html … The most important comment is that the "secret" details were already widely public. Also, it was a feature request from the donor, not a vuln.
Thanks for the writeup Rob. Yasha, what is your response? Rob's rebuttal makes your article look quite sensationalist (misleading, even).
No, it sidesteps the central question by holding that VOA's USGov sponsorship is neutral and beneficent and stays in the technology weeds as obfuscation. Yes, VOA is run by agencies informed by US IC and that data path is bidirectional. Obviously.pic.twitter.com/7DDm0s98E9
BBG's goal is to subvert other countries' politics, and finding ways for other countries to be incapable of implementing Tor/VPN bans is part of that.
While also alerting the agencies for their own domestic monitoring.
Which FBI used, at a University ten years ago by my recall, telling one professor he and one other person on that campus used TOR. Ever since then, it's on us (we've been warned).
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