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Re: alt.anonymous.messages

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On 2014-04-18, Mike Easter wrote:
> Actually it has a number of flaws from a security viewpoint.
>
> There was a recent in-depth evaluation by Tom Ritter, called 
> De-Anonymizing Alt.Anonymous.Messages and presented at the DefCon 21 
> conference.  It is a 116 p. .pdf doc and there are discussions about the 
> 'revelations' such as:
>
> // It seems there are issues with AAM, many of them related to the size 
> of the mixmaster network, the poor tools available, and the sloppy 
> operational practices of the people who use it... //
>
> Ritter did a lot of analysis of metadata as well as a little cracking by 
> acquiring 1.1 million messages over the last 10 years and 'digesting' them.
>
> There are plenty of places to get the .pdf and here's Ritter's page 
> intro'ing http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html
>

Thanks for posting this, I just watched his talk.  Very informative.

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alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 11:15 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-16 11:28 +0000
  Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-16 05:03 -0700
    Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-17 23:51 +0000
      Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-17 17:45 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-18 21:12 +0000
          Re: alt.anonymous.messages RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-19 17:47 +0000
            Re: alt.anonymous.messages Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-04-20 10:07 -0700
        Re: alt.anonymous.messages Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-19 20:18 +0000

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