Tor, TrueCrypt, Tails topped the NSA’s ‘most wanted’ list in 2012

Three out of three? That could be the score for the U.S. National Security Agency’s cryptographic “most wanted” list of 2012.

In January 2012, it saw Internet traffic anonymizing tool Tor (The Onion Router), Linux distribution Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) and disk encryption system TrueCrypt as the biggest threats to its ability to intercept Internet traffic and interpret other information it acquires.

Since then, flaws have been found in Tor and the FBI has unmasked Tor users and a vulnerability was found in Tails allowing attackers to determine users’ IP addresses.

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