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What Latest Knock Against Tor Tells Us: Beware of Any Download

For its part, the Tor Project has already taken action to mitigate the risk of the bad exit node.

“We’ve now set the BadExit flag on this relay, so others won’t accidentally run across it,” Tor developer Roger Dingledine wrote in a Tor mailing list message.

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