Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity | Threat Level | Wired.com

Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity | Threat Level | Wired.com:

Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network. Guess why they won’t be calling in the FBI.

There is a fair amount of code-speak in here that goes over my head, but it is still digestible for the lay-reader.

Some over-simplifications: The Tor network is a...