Something is rotten in the state of Tor: Swedish researchers have found at least 22 corrupted exit nodes that were tampering with encrypted traffic leaving the supposedly private Tor network.

While the corrupted nodes were able to touch only a small amount of Tor traffic, they’re evidence of what security experts have long feared: that criminals or spies could exist among the volunteers who operate Tor’s network and thus undermine Tor’s implicit mutual trust.

Tor, short for The Onion Router, is an Internet protocol that anonymizes users’ Web traffic by stripping it of personally identifiable information and passing it through several different servers, also called nodes or relays, to disguise its point of origin before it reaches its final destination.

A data packet’s path through the Tor network is similar to the roundabout path a person might take through a city, changing cars several times along the way, to shake off a pursuer.

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