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Some of the technical points of this article are simply wrong... > The exit node IP address of the user was easily obtained using the two different methods discussed briefly above. This is really not a vulnerability but simply how tor, and the internet at large, works - hidden services by design protect the service not the user (the user is protected by tor by default) - what the author actually did here was "leak" t…
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> In this particularly disturbing case, a father of three hints that he is willing to share pictures of his children. > npt@hotmail.com: hi im a married dad of 3, i prefer girls from pt to jb. I’m looking forward to joining in and sharing in the community A little later in the article there is an entire section devoted to his findings that many visitors of the site were predators seeking to do more than look at photo…
Isn't that pretty much what the author was doing? Offering child porn to people on tor? How do we know the people contacting him weren't trying to honeypot him ?
Later on he explains,
> Scans on the server dropped and some of the users who opted to run the software appeared to be government or private researchers.
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Isn't that pretty much what the author was doing? Offering child porn to people on tor? How do we know the people contacting him weren't trying to honeypot him ?
> None of the websites contained any illegal content. Since I am not a legal authority (nor an expert in the law), I had to scale back the content. No illegal pictures nor files existed on any of the sites. In fact, each site contained exactly one image – a decorative background image to give the site a bit of flair (hidden service sites are notoriously lean). None of the honeypot sites explicitly offered to provide…
"pedophiles use encryption, so encryption is the devil." seems to be where this is going. That's a slippery slope and a bit unethical to use pedophiles to push an authoritarian political agenda. I bet it's fun to call all his critics pedophile sympathizers and sit upon a moral high-horse of self-righteousness while pushing his authoritarian ideology under the guise of social justice.. That's the thing about these peo…
That reminds me, Freenet has an interesting stance on this:
> On two different occasions I contacted the FBI about the project and offered to provide full sets of data that I had collected. The FBI twice rejecting a set of information that could have reasonably led to the arrest of several pedophiles seems like a big mistake.
"full sets of data" seem to include Tor exit node IP addresses (public information that you can obtain from the Tor directory service) and a few possible real IP addresses—but not ones he can directly tie to any actual CP. As he says, "Admittedly, after introducing the security scanner, traffic patterns changed. Scans on the server dropped and some of the users who opted to run the software appeared to be government…
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The author appears to believe that "Tor is the devil" because "4,000-5,000 hidden services are running at any given time. Secondly, the content served by these sites is almost universally illegal or immoral (by my definition anyway). A conservative estimate would be maybe 1 out of 200 or so hidden service websites contain content I would deem worthy of the protection an anonymous network provides. Sites featuring fre…
Are knives the devil, because knives can be used to kill people?
(I don't really care about the argument/premise itself, I just find your sloppy attempt at a counter-argument to be weak)
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The author appears to believe that "Tor is the devil" because "4,000-5,000 hidden services are running at any given time. Secondly, the content served by these sites is almost universally illegal or immoral (by my definition anyway). A conservative estimate would be maybe 1 out of 200 or so hidden service websites contain content I would deem worthy of the protection an anonymous network provides. Sites featuring fre…
Are knives the devil, because knives can be used to kill people?
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The author appears to believe that "Tor is the devil" because "4,000-5,000 hidden services are running at any given time. Secondly, the content served by these sites is almost universally illegal or immoral (by my definition anyway). A conservative estimate would be maybe 1 out of 200 or so hidden service websites contain content I would deem worthy of the protection an anonymous network provides. Sites featuring fre…
Are knives the devil, because knives can be used to kill people?
I got a 403 error while accessing the site.