Tor developers rush to plug security hole that could identify users

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Exploit developed by Carnegie Mellon University enables attackers to identify Tor users

The developers behind the open-source anonymous web-browsing tool Tor are rushing to patch a critical security hole after discovering a group of relays that appeared to be trying to de-anonymise us...

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