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[PM] Russia Offers $100,000 for Cracking Tor

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2461422,00.asp
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The Russians have put a bounty on Tor worth nearly 4 million rubles to anybody who can hack the anonymity network.

That's $100,000 to you, imperialist running dog. And Russian citizens and companies can collect the reward if they can show Moscow how to crack the network and discover the identities of those using it.
Not the worst bounty.

You could easily go 5 years without working and live comfortably with that dough.
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um....thats chump change for something of this level.
i'd imagine anyone who would be able to do this would ask for slightly more and prob make slightly more than this either via salary, bounties or theivery.
 
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Originally Posted by fateswarm View Post

Wat. They ask 5,000+ to take part. That's like a ponzi scheme.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/11319/20140728/russia-wants-to-crack-tor-offers-100000-to-identify-users.htm

The $100000 reward offer of the Russian government only applies to citizens and companies of Russia. To join, users should spend a whopping $5,555 for them to become eligible participants.
lol so they will be paying out the 100k reward off of the entrants money into the program, and they'll probably pocket the extra money (i'm assuming they plan on having more than 20 people/organizations join).

anyway. the people that can hack Tor, are the same people using Tor to make money so idk if many will help
 
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If it was 1m u$s prize and no entry fee, it would be cobsiderable as an offer. But this is just plain hilarious.
 
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Originally Posted by frickfrock999 View Post

You could easily go 5 years without working and live comfortably with that dough.
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What? that's just a year's worth in salary :/

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Originally Posted by llythrus View Post

If you had that level of hacking skills/cryptography skills there are far better, legal ways of earning money.
Pretty much if the NSA can't even crack TOR, fat chance a freelancer will be able to do that and collect the measly $100,000. On the other hand, the NSA tracks everyone who has ever visited the TOR website and keeps tabs on them. They're watching you...

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well played Russia.....

If you get soooooo many ppl to go to TOR just to check it out, you can fog the NSA's proverbial lens'
 
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Should be interesting to see if anything comes of this.
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Originally Posted by fateswarm View Post

Wat. They ask 5,000+ to take part. That's like a ponzi scheme.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/11319/20140728/russia-wants-to-crack-tor-offers-100000-to-identify-users.htm

The $100000 reward offer of the Russian government only applies to citizens and companies of Russia. To join, users should spend a whopping $5,555 for them to become eligible participants.
Wow... talk about pay to play. I'd bet $5k in lottery tickets would pay off better than this.
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Originally Posted by ALiShaikh View Post

Isn't TOR run by the U.S Gov? How do they not already know what exactly you are doing.
Run by? No. Monitored because everyone is a terrorist? Yes.
 
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Originally Posted by frickfrock999 View Post

There's nobody on OCN making 100K a year.
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probably not but im willing to bet alot of people hear make make 40-65 grand a year so 100k would last you 1-2 years tops.
 
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Originally Posted by EniGma1987 View Post

lol. *raises hand*
lol. Pretty much.
 
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Originally Posted by frickfrock999 View Post

Not the worst bounty.

You could easily go 5 years without working and live comfortably with that dough.
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So, wouldn't this be considered an act of terrorism?

It's known that Vidalia (Tor's parent company/program) was and is a product of the US Military because they wanted a way to transfer data under secure channels.

So most of the nodes/proxies on the network are actually active US Military bases. Including most of the nodes overseas.

Therefor, wouldn't the hacking/attack on most of the nodes/proxy servers be therefor taken as an act of war? -- Considering most are servers on active duty bases?

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Originally Posted by BlackVenom View Post

Should be interesting to see if anything comes of this.
Wow... talk about pay to play. I'd bet $5k in lottery tickets would pay off better than this.
Run by? No. Monitored because everyone is a terrorist? Yes.
You're actually incorrect.

Most of the Nodes/Proxies on TOR are indeed US Military servers. Gov't owned, US Military servers.

Next time you're on TOR do a little checklist of the servers -- You'll find geographically, there's a US military base within 100 yards from most of them.
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Originally Posted by Syan48306 View Post

What? that's just a year's worth in salary :/
There's nobody on OCN making 100K a year.
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I may or may not be close to that number
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