NSA Has Trouble with Tor, Snowden Documents Show

The National Security Agency can’t crack Tor.

That’s the upshot of new PowerPoint slides provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden and released by the British newspaper The Guardian today (Oct. 4). The documents show that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, have had little success breaking into the Tor Internet anonymizing protocol.

“We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time,” reads a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Tor Stinks” and meant to be shown to NSA and GCHQ personnel. “With manual analysis, we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users.”

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