The Hack of the Year

TOR is a way to browse the web anonymously. However it seems that a number of individuals have had a misunderstanding of anonymous vs. secure.

This article from Australia’s The Age, is a depiction of how Dan Egerstad used TOR against its users.

The question on everybody’s lips was: how did he do it? The answer came more than a week later and was somewhat anti-climactic. The 22-year-old Swedish security consultant had merely installed free, open-source software – called Tor – on five computers in data centres around the globe and monitored it.