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Tor Hacker’s House Raided in Sweden »

According to a post on Wired’s Threat Level blog, by Kim Zetter, Dan Egerstad, of DEranged Security, who had previously “obtained log-in and password information for 1,000 e-mail accounts belonging to foreign embassies, corporations and human rights organizations, had his house raided on Monday by Swedish officials, who took him in for questioning.”
Egerstad illustrated how […]

German Tor Administrator Arrested »

On Sunday, July 29, German Tor onion router operator Alexander Janssen was arrested by the German police. A bomb threat against police on a German forum had run through Janssen’s Tor node and the police traced his IP address. he attempted to explain that Tor was a system distributed on computers around the world that […]

Tor is No Guarantee »

Dan Egerstad of DEranged Security found supposedly secret government information by “sniffing” info from Tor nodes around the world. In a post entitled DEranged Security gives you 100 passwords to Governments & Embassies, Egerstand published the information he found as, according to him, a corrective to the complacency surrounding Internet security.
Here is everything you […]