New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising accuracy

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinJul 31, 2015, 1:42 pm135 pts
Computer scientists have devised an attack on the Tor privacy network that in certain cases allows them to deanonymize hidden service websites with 88 percent accuracy. Such hidden services allow people to host websites without end users or anyone else knowing the true IP address of the service. The…

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