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  • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.caEnglish
    0•20 days ago

    Does this government funding really ever result in a hands off approach. In the case of Tor I wouldn’t be surprised that funding comes with backdoor access.

      • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.caEnglish
        0•19 days ago

        The last reply I will make.

        From September 19 2024

        “In response, the Tor Project acknowledged that one user of an outdated application called Ricochet was likely deanonymized through a “guard discovery attack.” However, they emphasized that this vulnerability has since been patched in current versions of Tor software.”

        https://cybersecuritynews.com/tor-claims-network-safe/

        • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
          0•19 days ago

          Excuse me? Are you saying using guard discovery is a backdoor someone gave to the government? I mean, you can think whatever, but the technology isn’t really… backdoorable? It doesn’t make sense in the context. Where will the backdoor lead? It has no where to go.

          • @HiroProtagonist@lemmy.caEnglish
            0•19 days ago

            Okay buddy keep it going as long as you need to. You might enjoy Reddit more, it’s a safe space for people who cannot change their opinions. Bye.

          • JackbyDevEnglish
            0•19 days ago

            (I am a different person, not arguing anything about this particular vulnerability or the government’s funding of Tor.)

            I think you’re defining backdoor too literally. I get your point, but colloquially it just means to get something nefarious in. If someone is saying “the government has a backdoor in an encryption algorithm” it would mean they believe the government has a vulnerability in that allows them to easily break the encryption, not necessarily a separate “door” or something.

            • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
              0•18 days ago

              Yeah the government has an institutional thing I forget what it is called, with massive amount of known exploits. That’s not backdoors. A backdoor is a “planted” exploit, not a discovered exploit. It makes no sense to call all exploits backdoors.

    • @rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      0•19 days ago

      TOR fundamentally cannot be backdoored. The US government funds it because more traffic on the network helps mask the traffic coming from CIA agents and the like