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Federal Agents Pierce Tor Web-Anonymity Tool

• Zigurd 12y ago
  That's a terrible article. The only concrete example? A postal inspector found some dubious physical mail that led to a suspect.
  • VikingCoder 12y ago
    ...and the guy who accidentally logged in to Facebook without Tor, once.
• dm2 12y 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)#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-bomb-threat-2013-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...