[$] Tor and browser vulnerabilities
Tor is a project intended to make
anonymous network browsing globally available. By encrypting connections
and routing them through a random set of intermediary machines, Tor hopes
to hide the identity and location of users from anybody who might be
attempting to spy on their activities. One can only imagine that recent
revelations about the scope of governmental data collection will have
increased the level of interest in tools like Tor. So the recent news of a
compromise of the Tor system with the potential to identify users is
certain to have worried a number of people; it also raises some interesting
questions about how projects like Tor should deal with security issues.