[lallysingh]

Looking at the linked article:

  'The specific attack involves creating a virus and using it to 
  infect such vulnerable systems in a laboratory environment, and 
  thus decrypting traffic passing through them again via an unknown,
  unmentioned mechanism. Finally, traffic is redirected towards 
  infected nodes by essentially performing a denial of service on 
  clean systems.
  
  Researchers showed that one third of the nodes are vulnerable, 
  "sufficient in all cases so that we can easily infect and obtain 
  system privileges," says the director.'

While the theory of the network is pretty good, you still have to execute your normal bread & butter security practices. Sadly, the anonymization depends on others doing the same.

[dfc]

Yeah it was my understanding that the 1/3 of the network was theoretically owned by their "virus."