Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

Post by tbrownaw » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC

abrichr wrote: post #81

inDigiNeous wrote: post #35

Am I the only one who is f*cking tired of FBI and other violence based organizations using pedophilia as their excuse to raid and bust people ? Think of the children! Yes .. a good front to make it so that they can just bust anything using SWAT forces. Is pedophilia such a big problem? Really ? I would like to see one study about pedophilia and the problems it creates, instead of what the problems that NSA and FBI ar…

...perhaps you could argue that there's nothing wrong with pedophilia per se , but there is definitely something wrong with child abuse, and I shouldn't need to link you to a study to convince you of that. By shutting down child pornography rings, police are preventing further abuse. How else would you propose they go about it?

Post by badfile » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

LekkoscPiwa wrote: post #67

Software that creates randomly TBs of fake email, voice (skype) and other communication daily to disrupt NSA. Possible? Helpful? I.e. billions of emails created daily originating from millions of email accounts created daily that contain random words including the ones the NSA is looking for. I mean, they went on the path of the least resistance with this whole PRISM thing. Kind of blatantly stupid approach of "just…

Post by smsm42 » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 10:37 PM UTC

vacri wrote: post #78

smsm42 wrote: post #72

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That argument would be very convincing if Obama weren't elected twice. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...

You make it sound like there was a viable alternative, like the other party in the two-party system wasn't being held to ransom by ultra-nationalists.

Post by hnnnnng » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #86

aqme28 wrote: post #83

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How is it sensationalist? The headline was not that there is a vulnerability in TOR, but a vulnerability in "half of all TOR sites."

The headline implies that the "compromise" is an inherent failure in the protocol (or else how could "half" of all sites be infected?) instead of the reality that the hosting provider intentionally placed an exploit in all of their pages. A better title may be like: "major .onion hosting service infiltrated by feds, all sites converted to honeypots; founder arrested". This does not imply any fundamental flaws in Tor…

Post by theoden » Sun, Aug 04, 2013, 10:53 PM UTC

Torgo wrote: post #54

cookiecaper wrote: post #41

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Checking on this now. I find it dubious, but possible. I haven't used the Tor Browser Bundle for quite a while, but last I recall they definitely had a mechanism to keep JavaScript from executing. It seems ridiculous that they wouldn't, given their long history of advocacy for NoScript et al. Will edit when done installing/checking. EDIT: So it seems that NoScript is installed as part of the package, but that scripts…

[EDIT: edited typo, clarified what TAILS was] I had mentioned (split between a couple other posts) that even with JS enabled, Noscript will prevent many XSS/CSRF and clickjacking attempts, which has been explained to me as the reason for its inclusion. And That disabling Javascript actually makes you more fingerprintable because it's rare for browsers to do this. I am guessing that the payload that article mentions s…