Researchers identify TOR users hidden identity.

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A group of researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory say it's easier to identify TOR users than they believed.

We present the first analysis of the popular Tor anonymity network that indicates the security of typical users against reasonably realistic adversaries in the Tor network or in the underlying Internet.

Our results show that Tor users are far more susceptible to compromise than indicated by prior work,

A important thing to point out though is the "By Realistic Adversaries" part of the papers title.

With realistic adversaries they mean governments and ISP's as they needed direct access to internet exchanges or ISP's autonomous systems to trace the users.

The paper also pointed out that using BitTorrent on TOR makes you drastically easier to trace.

 

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Source(s) / Full article:

The paper: http://media.koenvds.nl/LTT/NEWS/TOR/NOT%20SECURE/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf

New article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/01/tor_correlation_follows_the_breadcrumbs_back_to_the_users/