Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users’ online anonymity
As part of the Turmoil system, the NSA places secret servers, codenamed Quantum, at key places on the internet backbone. This placement ensures that they can react faster than other websites can. By exploiting that speed difference, these servers can impersonate a visited website to the target before the legitimate website can respond, thereby tricking the target’s browser to visit a Foxacid server.
whoa, I missed this before.(tags: nsa gchq packet-injection attacks security backbone http latency)
GCHQ report on ‘MULLENIZE’ program to ‘stain’ anonymous electronic traffic
By modifying the User-Agent: header string, each HTTP transaction is “stained” to allow tracking. huh
(tags: gchq nsa snooping sniffing surveillance user-agent http browsers leaks)