Tor Project Assures Users It’s Safe Amid Controversy of Deanonymizing Users

Tor Project, A Privacy Tool

Tor is a privacy software used for keeping your identity secret by rerouting your web traffic through several nodes (computers) worldwide, which makes it difficult to track where the user traffic is coming from. In a change of events, an investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and across the have collaborated to deanonymize users via timing attacks. 

The Tor project, however, is trying to assure users that the network is still safe. The team behind Tor assures proper measures are followed for users using the latest versions, stressing that timing attacks is an old technique and solutions can mitigate it.

Catching Child Abusers Using Tor

Known for its privacy services, Tor is generally used by journalists and activists while communicating with sources to avoid censorship in countries that curb press freedom. The project boasts a long list of genuine users, but because of its secrecy, threat actors also use Tor to host illegal marketplaces and avoid law enforcement.

German portal Panorama has issued an investigative that says court documents revealed that law agencies use timing analysis attacks via Tor nodes in large

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