Monitoring a user’s keystrokes, “a sort of digital fingerprint that can betray its owner’s identity,” has been identified by security researchers as a threat for Tor users, Ars Technica reports. “The risk to anonymity and privacy is that you can profile me and log what I am doing on one page and then compare that to the profile you have built on another page,” said security researcher Runa Sandvik. “Suddenly, the IP address I am using to connect to these two sites matters much less." Researchers Per Thorsheim and Paul Moore developed a Chrome plugin to ward off these attacks. "For oppressive regimes, this is most certainly of high interest," Thorsheim said.
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