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I mean the argument still holds for TOR I imagine. Aren't there .onion URL shorteners (I honestly don't know)? You're probably right that these people weren't

I mean the argument still holds for TOR I imagine. Aren't there .onion URL shorteners (I honestly don't know)? You're probably right that these people weren't tricked at any point. But setting a precedent that it's ok for government agencies to inject malware and attack citizen computers seems like a very slippery slope. Boobytraps, land mines, etc. are often banned because they attack people without discretion. Injecting malware into someone's machine just because they stumble upon an URL (be it .com, .onion, .xxx or .whatever) sounds criminal to me regardless of who is running the show. I can't imagine what a warrant for this scenario would look like given it was on TOR? Who would it be issued for?

throwaway2016a 10y ago
I would guess that you could put a proxy in-front of the Tor URL on a clearnet domain and set the X-Forwarded-For header to the IP of the actual visitor. If they trust forwarding proxies than it's easy to implicate someone. If they don't, it's easy to hide from them. But the same argument holds true for general possession laws. Take some illegal images, plant it on someone's computer, phone in an anonymous tip, boom jail time for an innocent person. It's the whole problem with possession of anything being a crime. Same with drugs. Just accessing something is an even scarier thought.