Tor Fingerprinting Makes Tracking Anonymous Bitcoin Users Trivial
15 March 2016 – Several new Tor de-anonymizing techniques have come to light in the past few days, which primarily exploit old javascript injection bugs to identify Tor users uniquely with mouse movement patterns and metrics. Jose Carlos Norte published these new exploits on his blog last week, shortly after discovering them. The security hole enabling these exploits is a ten-month-old bug that was unfortunately never addressed by the Tor developers. Until these bugs are resolved, oppressive regimes and nations that frown upon the use and trading of cryptocurrency can easily track privacy....
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