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Re:Secure Secure Shell by resonantcore on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @10:44AM (#8844842)
> I'd be more worried about opening myself to tor than some theorized attack on ssh ciphers.

Most of the attacks launched on Tor aren't in the "remote takeover of the tor server via memory corruption" category, they have (in recent history) mostly been in the form of:

    * Attack firefox.exe in Tor Browser Bundle
    * Control a lot of nodes, do something networky to discover the user's actual IP/location
What is the threat you anticipate will result from "opening yourself to Tor"?
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Re:Secure Secure Shell by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @11:36AM (#8845207)
Yes, these are the attacks we know of, and the first one only because the FBI told us so. I suspect Tor is a lot more targeted and dangerous than people assume and using it casually to administer servers is asinine.
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