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NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users
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Anonymous
2024-08-19 10:25:12 UTC
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The National Security Agency uses a bit of jiu-jitsu to turn the
structure of Web ad networks against people who run Tor to remain
anonymous.

Just because the National Security Agency hasn't cracked the
anonymizing service Tor doesn't mean that people who use the
service are free from surveillance.

The NSA has been able to use ad networks like Google's, and The
Onion Router's own entry and exit nodes on the Internet, to follow
some Tor users, according to a new report based on documents
leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by security
researcher Bruce Schneier with the Guardian. Tor is primarily
funded by the US State Department and the Department of Defense,
home of the NSA.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-
tor-users/
D
2024-08-19 12:09:30 UTC
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Post by Anonymous
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-
tor-users/
(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-tor-users/
Post by Anonymous
...
Oct. 4, 2013 5:39 p.m. PT
...able to use ad networks like Google's
(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
https://www.site24x7.com/tools/whois-lookup.html
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2024-08-19 13:55:48 UTC
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Post by Anonymous
The National Security Agency uses a bit of jiu-jitsu to turn the
structure of Web ad networks against people who run Tor to remain
anonymous.
Just because the National Security Agency hasn't cracked the
anonymizing service Tor doesn't mean that people who use the
service are free from surveillance.
The NSA has been able to use ad networks like Google's, and The
Onion Router's own entry and exit nodes on the Internet, to follow
some Tor users, according to a new report based on documents
leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by security
researcher Bruce Schneier with the Guardian. Tor is primarily
funded by the US State Department and the Department of Defense,
home of the NSA.
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-
tor-users/
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-tor-
users/

"The NSA buys ads from ad display companies like Google and seeds
them around Tor's access points.

"The NSA then cookies that ad, so that every time you go to a site,
the cookie identifies you. Even though your IP address changed
[because of Tor], the cookies gave you away," he said."

For Chrissakes! Empty your cookies after a session. I even empty mine
a number of times throughout an online session. And the most obvious
way to help staying unidentified is DON'T USE GOOGLE SEARCH. If you
use Facebook and the tons of other stuff, lot's of luck.

Follow strictly the Tor's site of how to use Tor and how NOT to use
it.

"More secure than either, Hansen said, was to run Tor on a virtual
machine so that cookies and cache are dumped when the machine is
closed, and the kind of man-in-the-middle and man-on-the-side attacks
described by Schneier are avoided."

The above is why I run a virtual C: drive. Nothing sticks to the C:
on reboot.

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