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Malicious computers caught snooping on Tor-anonymized Dark Web sites

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ars technica; By Dan Goodin
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The trust of the Tor anonymity network is in many cases only as strong as the individual volunteers whose computers form its building blocks. On Friday, researchers said they found at least 110 such machines actively snooping on Dark Web sites that use Tor to mask their operators' identities.

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