links for 2007-09-12

• Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise
  "A security researcher intercepted thousands of private e-mail messages sent by foreign embassies and human rights groups around the world by turning portions of the Tor internet anonymity service into his own private listening post."
  (tags: tor anonymity privacy security encryption internet)
• Andrew Lih » Blog Archive » Using Tor: Assume Exit Nodes are Monitored
  "Tor is very good for anonymity, but does nothing for adding any data security. In fact, it’s likely more risky, because you are handing traffic over to a stranger (exit node) in cleartext."
  (tags: tor tools anonymity privacy security circumvention internet freespeech)
• DEranged Security » Blog Archive » Time to reveal…
  "ToR has about 1000 nodes set up to handle exit-traffic (unencrypted). These are the servers all you traffic is going to be sent through. Of course you know everything about them, right?"
  (tags: tor anonymity privacy security internet circumvention freespeech)
• UC Davis News & Information :: China's Eye on the Internet
  "Because it filters ideas rather than specific Web sites, keyword filtering stops people from using proxy servers or "mirror" Web sites to evade censorship. But because it is not completely effective all the time, it probably acts partly by encouraging se
  (tags: china censorship gfw chineseinternetresearch circumvention freespeech)
• Business.view | Davos in the east | Economist.com
  "In general, Dalian offered less food for thought about global issues than Davos usually does. Beyond the occasional out-of-control journalist, most people seemed reluctant to say anything that might upset the hosts."
  (tags: china censorship dalian wef internet google wikipedia freespeech humanrights business)