new threat for tor users

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/13/tor-users-at-risk-of-being-unmasked-by-ultrasound-tracking/


Comments


[8 Points] None:

Good thing I have no phone and no IRL friends, I am OPSEC God


[8 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

Sooo... As well as pulling the hard drive from any new burner laptop, I guess disabling the speakers by snipping the wires is also now to be considered best practice.


[4 Points] murderhomelesspeople:

I use to turn off my wifi on my phone whenever coming on here because I was paranoid, looks like I wasn't completely wrong in doing so (now who's fucking crazy!).

Thanks for making me more paranoid, now it's being shutoff and removed from the room completely


[2 Points] hypnagoggle:

Using a Tor computer that has no speaker connection seems advised to begin with.

But this makes things tricky for those who like to Tor it up on their mobile phone. But that was never a particularly secure way of using Tor to begin with.

If you actually seriously want to avoid big brother's attention, then using a mobile phone for Tor is not the way to go. Not sure if/when that's ever going to change.


[1 Points] wombat2combat:

not that new, however the people who should especially be concerned about such attacks [e.g. market admins] already know that it is a good practice to keep as little electronic devices as possible in the room your are doing your job.


[1 Points] None:

Awesome find, great read. Just makes me more excited to set up my office soon, a office sized closet room, with nothing but a desk, comfy chair, old laptop with HDD ripped out, and now the fucking speakers cut and mics aha. No cell phones allowed! NO electronics allowed! lol


[1 Points] Uniqueusername151:

Okay, but that means that you have to visit a specific site that plays the beacon though right? So as long as you don't visit those sites you should be fine. Unless they make a new market or email provider or search engine that would be used and have a beacon built in.


[1 Points] None:

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