Andrew McGlashan wrote:
Even TOR is not as safe as has been made out, the original creators of TOR whom worked with DARPA originally now say so..... [as per Steve Gibson SN 0420, no other reference found yet]
I can't comment on that, but obs. this recent attack on Tor users that didn't keep their patches up to date: Ars technica is one of many sites with coverage of the Firefox exploit that was used to attack the anonymity of Tor users. "The attack code exploited a memory-management vulnerability, forcing Firefox to send a unique identifier to a third-party server using a public IP address that can be linked back to the person's ISP. The exploit contained several hallmarks of professional malware development, including 'heap spraying' techniques to bypass Windows security protections and the loading of executable code that prompted compromised machines to send the identifying information to a server located in Virginia, according to an analysis by researcher Vlad Tsrklevich." http://lwn.net/Articles/562219 Re your Subject field, this property has been well understood since [Thompson 1984], at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_Trusting_Trust#cite_note-5