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Is TOR compromised? (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

All the recent dark net arrests seem to be pretty vague on how the big bad was caught (except the IM admin's silly opsec errors) In the article they say he clicked on a honeypot link, but how was his ip or any other identifier identified, why didnt tor protect him.

Obviously this guy in question was a pedophile and an active danger, but recently in my country a state passed a law that can get you arrested if you post anything the government doesnt like, so these tools are important and need to be bulletproof.

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[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Exactly. Tor was originally created so that people in repressive countries could access otherwise blocked content in a way it couldn’t be easily traced back to them.

It wasn’t designed to protect the illegal activities of people in first world countries that have teams of computer forensics experts at dozens of law enforcement agencies that have demonstrated experience in tracking down users of services like Tor, bitcoin, etc.

[-] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Welp repressive countries have more stringent teams of computer forensics experts now. Though compared to our neighbours i wouldn't call my country repressive(yet)

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