Author Archives: user21377

Does HTTPS protect you from fingerprinting by the NSA?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by user21377

We’ve established that, for all intents and purposes, HTTPS hides what page you visit on a given server from NSA backbone wiretapping, but not the domain itself. But that’s only IP / domain correlation (across multiple domain… Continue reading Does HTTPS protect you from fingerprinting by the NSA?→

Posted in nsa, privacy, surveillance, TLS | Tagged fingerprinting

Can Heartbleed expose a Tor user’s IP address?

Posted on April 19, 2014 by user21377

It is interesting to observe, that Tor exit nodes with out-of-date OpenSSL implementations can themselves be affected by the Heartbleed bug.
Can Heartbleed expose a Tor user’s IP address merely by exploiting the vulnerable Tor exit node, o… Continue reading Can Heartbleed expose a Tor user’s IP address?→

Posted in anonymity, Heartbleed, TLS, tor