Do you use Tor for anonymity while browsing, or doing what you do online? Do you think you are safe fro the NSA spying on you, if you use Tor? Well, you’re wrong.
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Amid the furore over a German intelligence operative arrested on suspicion of being a double agent for the US, two German TV broadcasters have revealed a harrowing discovery – the NSA is targeting over a million users of the Tor IP anonymity network.
The two broadcasters, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), claim that they have been given access to a next-generation version of XKeyScore (XKS), a server-based software program developed by the NSA that is able to “spider search” everything a targeted user is doing on the internet, including web browsing history, contents of emails and all social media interactions.
According to the broadcasters, the souped-up version of XKS goes one step further.
It is designed to spy the German internet by monitoring the two main Tor servers located in Berlin and Nuremberg, but it can also track specific users on Tor in other countries, even if they are using a non-public Tor relay for users in China and Iran, where governments block public relays of the Tor network.