We want to make life as difficult as possible for people trying to deanonymize our users.
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And in recent weeks, Russian intelligence was revealed to also be trying to deanonymize Tor users.
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They wanted anonymized medical data to essentially deanonymize by hashing against profile data, but patient consent didn't come up??
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According to the slide, this enabled the signals intelligence needed to deanonymize P25ke and discover his name, along with his Facebook and email accounts.
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"From day one we've stripped personal identifiable information (PII) from all of our data, where even our engineers cannot deanonymize it," Patton said at a conference last year.
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Although the data does not include personal information such as users' names, it still contains a wealth of specific browsing data, and experts say it could be possible to deanonymize certain users.
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The email notice that Twitter sent out included a link to both a privacy tool (the Tor Project) and a privacy guide, implying that the company believed that the attackers were trying to deanonymize someone.
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The FBI seized Silk Road 2.0 as part of Operation Onymous, in which the agency used information gleaned by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to help deanonymize users on the Tor network.
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In some cases, it is possible that a solution could be as straightforward as anonymizing or encrypting the data to render it useless in the hands of anyone without the ability to deanonymize it or without the encryption key.
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The stolen data included information on a number of projects that SyTech had been working on for the FSB since 2009; according to Engadget, the most prominent, dubbed Nautilus-S, was part of an effort to deanonymize the Tor network using rogue Tor servers, presumably for the purpose of outing political dissidents.
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The UN report urges world governments to find ways to spy on the Tor network and dark web to detect terror threats, which affirms years-long fears from privacy watchdogs that the internet is being undermined by signals intelligence agencies such as the NSA, which is known to have attempted to deanonymize people on Tor.
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The audit identified "multiple areas of improvement" and one vulnerability that could be used to deanonymize users. According to Brooks, the vulnerability has been fixed in the latest release.
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In 2016, FindFace generated controversy because it was once used to deanonymize Russian pornography actresses and alleged prostitutes. These efforts were organized by users of a Russian imageboard Dvach who claimed that women in the sex industry are “corrupt and deceptive”, according to Global Voices. In addition, FindFace has been characterized as a major step in the erosion of anonymity.
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Law enforcement agencies have claimed to have successfully infiltrated freenet opennet in order to deanonymize users but no technical details have been given to support these allegations. One report stated that, "A child-porn investigation focused on... [the suspect] when the authorities were monitoring the online network, Freenet." A different report indicated arrests may have been based on the BlackICE project leaks, that are debunked for using bad math. A recent court case in the Peel Region of Ontario, Canada R. v.
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