Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
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#2Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents.
[1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
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#3> Tax-3 - a project for the creation of a closed intranet to store the information of highly-sensitive state figures, judges, and local administration officials, separate from the rest of the state's IT networks.
So, is this intranet used for keeping official (confidential) records or for blackmail purposes?
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#4Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents. [1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
The funding part is not really a secret and it's even on the Wikipedia page but the "military financed destabilization project" begs for evidence.
The more likely scenario is, I believe, as soon as any government got concerned about the stuff going on on the internet they assigned people to take care of it and those people started to look for a ways to exploit anything and the Tor project was a good target.
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#5Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents. [1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
What is unbelievable in aiming "to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states"? I think the State Department has funded plenty of other censorship circumvention projects like Tor.
But you have to admit the funding for Tor was also meant to get the upper hand in the shadow battle across anonymous networks. I still remember how LulzSec was busted by the FBI with a timing attack on Tor. Without the ahead-of-time research on Tor it wouldn't be as easy for the FBI to get the same level of power against anonymous networks.
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#6As much as I hate to say this, we all knew it was happening, right? I'm still ninety percent sure they had to scramble to justify a non-tor-breaking reason they got Ulbricht. I don't know why people are still encouraging others to use it alone. You should also be using some kind of encryption of the content itself. Their goal is to figure out who you are and what you're saying; deny them either piece, and they're foiled (three-letters, that is).
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#7Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents. [1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
I consider it very believable. Of course the US has the same interest in destabilizing other countries as other countries have in destabilizing the US.
Russia gives controversial people a voice in the US, while the US finances TOR.
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#8Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents. [1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
Wikipedia: “The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online.“
Recently, many or all of the US’s agents in China were captured and executed:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
This is why things like mandating Apple, Google, et al use breakable encryption is extremely bad. Anyone who follows information security knows Apple struggles to keep up with 0 day exploits.
My opinion is that it is both in the interest of the United States government and all human-rights abiding democratically elected states to have as absolutely secure and anonymous communications systems as possible. I’m not the only one who believes this. In fact, I think this is very very much a CIA vs FBI situation, domestically. Is it really worth exchanging knowing what was on some dead nut jobs iPhone for the ability of government officials, the military, business executives (e.g. Jeff Bezos apparent breach by Israeli assisted Saudis), and every day common citizens to communicate securely?
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#9As much as I hate to say this, we all knew it was happening, right? I'm still ninety percent sure they had to scramble to justify a non-tor-breaking reason they got Ulbricht. I don't know why people are still encouraging others to use it alone. You should also be using some kind of encryption of the content itself. Their goal is to figure out who you are and what you're saying; deny them either piece, and they're foi…
Ulbricht was grossly incompetent, they didn't need a special attack on Tor to unmask someone who asks questions about connecting to Tor from a public StackOverflow account in their real name.
Re: Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project
#10Last time Tor was mentioned here, a user posted this link [1], claiming Tor is a military financed destabilization project. Seems unbelievable, but there appear to be lots of supporting documents. [1]: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
>Yasha Levine
"Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile."