[tor-talk] Tor compromised?

[George-Lopez]

Some facts described in these articles are strange:
1) There aren't so many nodes, i count only ~2400 of them. (9000 in the
articles)
2) They say 50% of them are on Windows, while a rapid check here
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php?SR=Bandwidth&SO=Desc indicates
only ~22% of them are
3) It's not a vulnerability of Tor that is exploited to escalate rights,
it's a windows'
4) Packet spinning attack is an old one, already described here :
http://www.ics.forth.gr/~elathan/papers/torspin.isc08.pdf
5) I've always wondered why the OSes running the node were public. Is it
really necessary to make the Tor network running?

> A better article on the same presentation:
> http://pro.01net.com/editorial/544024/des-chercheurs-francais-cassent-le-reseau-danonymisation-tor/
>