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NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users – CNET

The NSA has been able to use ad networks like Google’s, and The Onion Router’s own entry and exit nodes on the Internet, to follow some Tor users, according to a new report based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained.

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NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users

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Keith Alexander acknowledged for the first time that between 2010 and 2011, the spy agency collected location data on Americans as part of a secret pilot project.

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The objective of the United States National Security Agency is to eliminate privacy around the world, the American writer who helped expose the NSA’s far-reaching surveillance powers said on Tuesday. 

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s NSA and UK intel agency GCHQ target online anonymity tool Tor, according to Boing Boing NSA and UK intel agency GCHQ target online anonymity tool Tor, according to leaked Snowden documents.

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IBTimes.co.uk NSA, GCHQ Have Worked to Develop Attacks on Tor

NSA, GCHQ Have Worked to Develop Attacks on Tor

FiredoglakeThe National Security Agency has spent time and resources to develop ways to attack and undermine Tor, software designed to protect the anonymity of online users. 

A new report by Mother Jones now says that the NSA

Tech2 NSA reportedly posed as Google to fool users into giving up their own dataTech2Covert data gathering seems to be the talk of the town, and secret government programmes keep popping up to add to the fire.

NSA disguised itself as Google to spy

Mother Jones NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say …CNET“There have been rumors of the NSA and others using those kinds of MITM attacks,” Mike Masnick writes on Techdirt, “but to have it confirmed that they’re doing them against the likes of Google.

NSA reportedly posed as Google to fool users into giving up their own data – Tech2

Guardian NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web usersThe GuardianWhile it seems that the NSA has not compromised the core security of the Tor software or network, the documents detail proof-of-concept attacks, including several relying on the large-scale online surveillance systems maintained by the NSA

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RT (blog) NSA masqueraded as Google to spy on web users – reportRT (blog)The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered.

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Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor• Tool funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists• Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users’ computers The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor.

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