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Confidence 2009.02 – The Tor Project – Jacob Appelbaum

November 20th, 2009 Frank Breedijk No comments

The Tor project is a non-profit organization that has a full documented network that provides anonymity and privacy by design and is fully documented. Tor is funded by both the US DoD, EFF, Voice of America, Human Rights Watch, Google, NLnet, and you?

Tor is really a community of developers and volunteers and is still looking for developers and volunteers to enhance themselves.

Top countries in the world in bandwidth:
•    Germany
•    USA
•    Netherlands
•    France
•    Sweden

Anonymity means different things to different people:
•    Private citizens – Privacy
•    Government – Traffic analysis resistance
•    Human rights activists – Reachability
•    Businesses – Network Security

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My Security Justice interview

October 7th, 2009 Frank Breedijk No comments

One month ago we blogged about my interview for Security Justice. Yesterday I got a tweet from Security Justice that the recording of my interview is now available.

To my surprise the interview turned out a lot better then I remembered it.

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Defcon: Unmasking You by Robert “RSnake” Hansen and Joshua “Jabra” Abraham

August 6th, 2009 Frank Breedijk No comments

This talk is about privacy. Privacy is good, but it is also a haven for “evildoers”. It also hurts law enforcement and prevents social control.
Privacy is broken, because it is too complex. One of the ways to measure this is to see if the users IP address can be obtained. This is the gold standard.

Rsnake and Jabra demonstrated client site exploits that will defeat common proxy techniques such as classic HTTP proxies, CGI proxies, SOCKS proxies, and Tor.

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