Researchers mount successful attacks against Tor network—and show how to prevent them
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 05:00
in Mathematics & Economics
With 2.5 million daily users, the Tor network is the world's most popular system for protecting Internet users' anonymity. For more than a decade, people living under repressive regimes have used Tor to conceal their Web-browsing habits from electronic surveillance, and websites hosting content that's been deemed subversive have used it to hide the locations of their servers.