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Podcast: DEF CON 22 [Materials] Speeches from the Hacker Convention.
Episode: Charlie Vedaa and Mike Larsen - Impostor — Polluting Tor Metadata
Description: Slides here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Larsen-Vedaa/DEFCON-22-Mike-Larsen-Charlie-Vedaa-Impostor-Polluting-Tor-Metadata.pdf
Impostor — Polluting Tor Metadata
Charlie Vedaa
Mike Larsen
Just using Tor can bring the cops to your door. While the security community was busy scolding the Harvard bomb threat kid for his poor OPSEC, this ugly revelation was largely ignored.
Malware authors are doing their part to remedy the situation; by adding thousands of infected hosts to the Tor network, they're making Tor traffic more common, and making dragnet investigation techniques less viable.
But the hackers need to...