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Tor is under threat from Russian censorship and Sybil attacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Tor anonymity service and anticensorship tool has come under fire from two threats in recent weeks: The Russian government has blocked most Tor nodes in that country, and hundreds of malicious servers have been relaying traffic. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as […]

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Can Tor offer more benefit or injury? New newspaper States it depends upon

Expand (charge: Westend61 / / Getty Images) The Tor anonymity system has created controversy nearly constantly since its beginning nearly two decades back. Supporters say it is an essential support for protecting online privacy and abusing censorship, especially in states with bad human rights documents. Critics, meanwhile, assert that Tor protects offenders distributing child-abuse pictures, […]