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humanitee

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I don't think it's going to be too bad. Apparently Tormail went down sporadically over the past few weeks and when it did, it did not coincide with Silk Road also going down.

The only people this will affect are people who didn't encrypt all their shit, as they should have been doing.

Quote from: 01BTC10 on August 04, 2013, 07:15:37 PM

That's why Whonix seem pretty safe. It use one virtual machine as a proxy to Tor and a second one for browsing and doing stuff. The second virtual machine only has connectivity to the first virtual machine so IP address can't leak even when compromised.

Sweet!

01BTC10

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Quote from: humanitee on August 04, 2013, 06:53:11 PM

Quote from: ElectricMucus on August 04, 2013, 06:42:01 PM

Hmm to be honest I haven't realized the magnitude. What happened exactly?

Was this strictly a client side exploit or was something used to reveal the real ip of the server?
The way it seems, people should probably stop from using SR for a while, at least until there is more information on the exploit that was used.

So yes, in contrast to my previous assessment this might really spark some panic regarding SRs future and so the price of Bitcoins.

Somehow they got the IP of the server and put the 0 day exploit up to track the users who were going on the site. That's IF the account of the story is real.

My guess is the guy fucked up and got compromised somehow. Nobody knows at this point, even the TOR people are waiting to hear.

All users would have been safe if they would have disabled javascript. God damn noobs.

That's why Whonix seem pretty safe. It use one virtual machine as a proxy to Tor and a second one for browsing and doing stuff. The second virtual machine only has connectivity to the first virtual machine so IP address can't leak even when compromised.

Melbustus

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Quote from: fr33d0miz3r on August 04, 2013, 07:08:54 PM

Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on August 04, 2013, 07:08:21 PM

So to what extent, based on this report, can we expect Tormail to have been compromised? Only during this event or, in fact, all information is now compromised on TOrmail for example?

yep, maybe

Why not just use BitMessage:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitmessage-address-book-226770

BitCoiner2012

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Quote from: fr33d0miz3r on August 04, 2013, 07:08:54 PM

Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on August 04, 2013, 07:08:21 PM

So to what extent, based on this report, can we expect Tormail to have been compromised? Only during this event or, in fact, all information is now compromised on TOrmail for example?

yep, maybe

Isn't that.. tremendously awful?

fr33d0miz3r

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Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on August 04, 2013, 07:08:21 PM

So to what extent, based on this report, can we expect Tormail to have been compromised? Only during this event or, in fact, all information is now compromised on TOrmail for example?

yep, maybe

BitCoiner2012

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So to what extent, based on this report, can we expect Tormail to have been compromised? Only during this event or, in fact, all information is now compromised on TOrmail for example?

vokain

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this should only help decentralization

ElectricMucus

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Quote from: humanitee on August 04, 2013, 06:53:11 PM

Somehow they got the IP of the server and put the 0 day exploit up to track the users who were going on the site. That's IF the account of the story is real.

My guess is the guy fucked up and got compromised somehow. Nobody knows at this point, even the TOR people are waiting to hear.

Well whoever knows the facts in that regard first will have the advantage.

humanitee

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Quote from: ElectricMucus on August 04, 2013, 06:42:01 PM

Hmm to be honest I haven't realized the magnitude. What happened exactly?

Was this strictly a client side exploit or was something used to reveal the real ip of the server?
The way it seems, people should probably stop from using SR for a while, at least until there is more information on the exploit that was used.

So yes, in contrast to my previous assessment this might really spark some panic regarding SRs future and so the price of Bitcoins.

Somehow they got the IP of the server and put the 0 day exploit up to track the users who were going on the site. That's IF the account of the story is real.

My guess is the guy fucked up and got compromised somehow. Nobody knows at this point, even the TOR people are waiting to hear.

All users would have been safe if they would have disabled javascript. God damn noobs.

ElectricMucus

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Hmm to be honest I haven't realized the magnitude. What happened exactly?

Was this strictly a client side exploit or was something used to reveal the real ip of the server?
The way it seems, people should probably stop from using SR for a while, at least until there is more information on the exploit that was used.

So yes, in contrast to my previous assessment this might really spark some panic regarding SRs future and so the price of Bitcoins.

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