Organisations that look after the top level domains such as .uk and .de are asking Icann to give guarantees about root server stability, given that billions of dollars of e-commerce now depend on the safe running of these key servers.

BBC: Net's servers under scrutiny

So far, Lewman says, Tor's developers haven't figured out how that probe is able to determine what's an encrypted connection to a Tor server and what's a connection to an encrypted banking or e-commerce site, which in theory should both look to a snooping government like indecipherably scrambled Web traffic.

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