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Re: [tor-bugs] #24351 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare
#24351: Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare
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Reporter: nullius | Owner: tbb-
| team
Type: enhancement | Status:
| needs_information
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Major | Resolution:
Keywords: security, privacy, anonymity, mitm, | Actual Points:
cloudflare |
Parent ID: #18361 | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):
Replying to [comment:21 nullius]:
> Replying to [comment:18 cypherpunks]:
> > It shouldn't extend to how someone sets up their website, otherwise it
opens a slippery slope: why not block all websites because all servers
have the backdoor that is Intel Management Engine or AMD's Platform
Security Processor?
>
> For the purposes of this bug, suggestions that some shadowy somebody may
be using a hardware backdoor for the whole Internet do not equate to the
certain knowledge that one clearly identified entity is ''in fact''
performing realtime decryption of all TLS connections to millions of
websites ''right now''.
Do you have any actual evidence that they intercepted these decrypted
packets ''and'' used them for their own malicious goals, or those of other
3-letter entities? Otherwise this talk is pure gossip, and it belongs on
tabloids of the DailyMail.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:22>
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