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"especially if the FBI is the one hunting" is very true. Even using TOR, I remember a college student who made a bomb threat over TOR to get out of a test and g
by m3rc 9y ago
"especially if the FBI is the one hunting" is very true. Even using TOR, I remember a college student who made a bomb threat over TOR to get out of a test and got caught because they were able to see the activity on the TOR network during the time the threat was made and traced it back to his dorm.
- dx034 9y agoBut that's the problem. If he had been smart, he would've used a public wifi somewhere without CCTV. There's a big difference between using ISP logs and really identifying a user through TOR. If the user here hadn't used his work computer and had paid the vpn account with bitcoin (using another email address), it would've been much, much harder for the FBI to track him.
- tinus_hn 9y agoThat student was the only one using TOR while the threat was made. If he had made up a plausible excuse for that he would probably have won; they didn’t get at the contents of his traffic.
- godelski 9y agoI thought they found him because he was the only one on the campus network accessing TOR at the time of the bomb threat. Which really says nothing about TOR or anything else because they saw input and output, the middle might as well be a black box. And if you really don't suspect a real bomb, and know the traffic came through TOR, the first thing I would look for is which students used TOR and which students had tests that day. Pretty easy to narrow that down.
- m3rc 9y agoSure, which was exactly my point. There are a multitude of external pieces of data that can be used to track you down if the people going after you have the resources.