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FBI managed tor nodes

There have been a number of very strange arrests of tor users by FBI and other western special services. The one I remember was when they took down the hydra's (basically russian silk road) and doxed it's creators. The idea of tor being infiltrated by feds seems very logical, considering that Tor got a good reputation, and is, basically, a great honeypot. I'd consider it a real threat if I were a criminal. But are there any networks that are resistant to malicious nodes?

I wonder how this is possible. As far as I understand, tails uses two VMs, so the entire VM uses tor without running the tor service. So how did it send the real IP if all the system's traffic is routed through an external Tor router? It's also quite surprising to me that the FBI spends so much resources on catching ordinary paedophiles, I'd expect such a high level of operations to be used to find high-level ransomware groups or something.

If you are worried about somebody reading what you do on your computer, you should to use full disk encryption (I consider it a requirement these days). There are a lot of things besides recall that can be compromised if somebody gets physical access to your machine.

Am I the only one who doesn't think that recall is a bad thing? Of course Microsoft's implementation is a buggy privacy nightmare, but the core idea of being able to see what happened a week/month ago and process it using LLMs looks really useful. I'm looking forward to something like this, but local, FOSS and for Linux.