Edward Snowden revealed months ago that the US intelligence is worried by possible misuses of the Tor network and was investing to compromise it. Intelligence agencies declared war on the anonymizing network.

Governments sustain that technologies like Tor are abused by cybercrime and terrorists and are a potential source of threats, but organizations for the defense of online privacy and freedom of expression sustain that intelligence agencies are trying to extend their monitoring capabilities over anonymizing networks. Tor networks and other anonymizing networks represent an obstacle to Internet monitoring. Governments are spending great effort to improve monitoring capabilities. In this post is an overview of the recent events regarding Tor and the attacks on its infrastructures, with explicit reference to principal initiatives conducted by governments to de-anonymize Tor users. According to Tor Metrics, the number of people worldwide who directly access the anonymizing network is 2.5 million.įigure – Users directly connected to Tor network The Tor network is widely used by digital activists and individuals in many critical regions to avoid the Internet censorship operated by governments in China, Syria, Bahrain and Iran.

Practically every government is trying to infiltrate the network to de-anonymize its users. Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies all over the world are spending a considerable effort to try to break the encryption used with Tor. Tor traffic is encrypted multiple times passing through different nodes of the network, also known as Tor relays. The encryption processes implemented in the Tor Network allow it to protect users’ privacy.

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