Federal Agents Pierce Tor Web-Anonymity Tool

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579461641349857358

by dailyrorschach • 12 years ago

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Zigurd• 12 years ago

That's a terrible article. The only concrete example? A postal inspector found some dubious physical mail that led to a suspect.

VikingCoder• 12 years ago

...and the guy who accidentally logged in to Facebook without Tor, once.

dm2• 12 years ago

Do spies and other secret agents use Tor?

I've always assumed it was developed mainly for them to use, because a US government VPN would be too obvious.

If Tor wasn't public then a could just say, look, there's a US spy at this IP because they're the only person using onion routing.

These are it's weaknesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknes...

Also I think Harvard caught a student who reported a bomb threat over Tor, but was caught because there was only one student using Tor on the Harvard network at the time, oops.

http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...

Federal Agents Pierce Tor Web-Anonymity Tool

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