New Tool TorBan Helps Monitor Bitcoin-Over-Tor Attacks
Days after researchers described an attack that could reveal the identities of individuals who used bitcoin over the Tor anonymity network, a privacy advocate has developed a tool to monitor the occurrence of that attack. The tool, TorBan, is a website that gives information about the Tor exit nodes currently connected to the bitcoin network. If all the connections are fresh, users should be wary of a privacy-invading attack like the one described by the Luxembourg researchers, TorBan's creator Kristov Atlas said, adding: "If you see a bunch of new nodes never seen before, and all of the....
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