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Detour
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Miserlou / Detour

Detour

GitHub mirror of Jann Horn's Detour

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5GitHub stars
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What it is

GitHub mirror of Jann Horn's Detour

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Observed mentions: 2016-09-21 21:14:12 UTC to 2016-09-21 21:51:22 UTC.

0122016-09-21 21:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-21 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsSep 21, 21:00

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What Hacker News says

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Tor is not, nor has it ever been, trustworthy. Hell, you can still try active deanonymization for youself: https://github.com/Miserlou/Detour This didn't used to be a problem, as it was essentially run as a sandbox project for the academic anonymity community. It was very up front about its capabilities and limitations. Unfortunately, in recent years, the US government has been bankrolling more "privacy" software development through its propaganda arms (OTF, RFA, etc.), and the Snowden revelations have led private foundations to follow suit. As such, the organization doubled down on rebranding to be a "human rights" _tool_, as this is what grant giving organizations love to promote (free speech in Iran, activist publishing, etc.) This combined with a overly-enthusiastic do-gooders gaining more and more prominence in the Tor organization h
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as led to the dangerous situation of promoting inherently insecure software as a security solution to vulnerable people. This is a general problem in the scene (remember when those activists in South America got vanned for using CryptoCat?) - and one that I've been guilty of myself in the past. I really hope the new boards steers them back to the academic realm and slaps a big red USE AT YOUR OWN RISK warning on the tin. Unfortunately, I think the opposite will happen.
In Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale

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