Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
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Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#2I think Wired was the first with the first Silk Road bust, too, or in similar FBI operations. Does the Wired have FBI "sources" or FBI PR contacts that give them these almost-exclusives?
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#3I wonder if these attacks, along with some clever fingerprinting of the server host, and advanced techniques on traffic correlation, were enough to determine the whereabouts of the servers:
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#4I think Wired was the first with the first Silk Road bust, too, or in similar FBI operations. Does the Wired have FBI "sources" or FBI PR contacts that give them these almost-exclusives?
Maybe they're just buying drugs on those websites
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#5I think that TOR should no longer be considered secure in the wake of so many busts. Either it isn't secure by some flaw, or it is too easy to fingerprint visitors, or some other work around.
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#6I think that TOR should no longer be considered secure in the wake of so many busts. Either it isn't secure by some flaw, or it is too easy to fingerprint visitors, or some other work around.
Agreed. From this point forward Tor is considered harmful.
But the same time, it seems like they're using workarounds, attacking the browser etc. I still believe the underlying network remains unbroken.
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#7I think that TOR should no longer be considered secure in the wake of so many busts. Either it isn't secure by some flaw, or it is too easy to fingerprint visitors, or some other work around.
I think that the feds having found and exploited a Tor vulnerability is much less likely than them having violated the law in the process of their investigation and then covered it up with parallel construction.
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#8I think Wired was the first with the first Silk Road bust, too, or in similar FBI operations. Does the Wired have FBI "sources" or FBI PR contacts that give them these almost-exclusives?
It's a high profile tech magazine with mainstream credibility. It would be silly for them not to have FBI sources.
Re: Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
#9I think Wired was the first with the first Silk Road bust, too, or in similar FBI operations. Does the Wired have FBI "sources" or FBI PR contacts that give them these almost-exclusives?
but this happened yesterday and there were lots of posts from various sites about it, the criminal complaint has been posted online, I dont see how wired were frist with anything here.
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#10I think that TOR should no longer be considered secure in the wake of so many busts. Either it isn't secure by some flaw, or it is too easy to fingerprint visitors, or some other work around.
I think that the feds having found and exploited a Tor vulnerability is much less likely than them having violated the law in the process of their investigation and then covered it up with parallel construction.
That may very well be true, but in the absence of supporting evidence, prudence would suggest caution (with respect to tor) is not a bad idea.