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If this ever goes to trial, the defense-discovery of how it was done will be interesting.

• bitxbitxbitcoin 7y ago
  Unless they use parallel reconstructionism to keep their (probably Tor) deanonymizing skillset on the down low.
  • ISL 7y ago
    If the prosecutors were to do so knowingly, the prosecutors would be breaking their oath to the Constitution (and simultaneously obliterating their case/perhaps committing crimes of their own).
    • LunaSea 7y ago
      Like that hasn't happened before with no consequences when investigative forces were handed a cool new toy.
    • learc83 7y ago
      The prosecutors aren't likely doing so knowingly. It's more likely that the clean evidence is what gets sent to the DOJ.
  • justnotworthit 7y ago
    That's the line that stood out to me. If so, the threat sounds like they could turn it off or reveal everyone at once, not so much a selective attack (why announce it like that then? Certainly not if you were going to use parallel reconstruction to keep the fact secret). However, the line: > 34 servers located in nearly 20 countries Doesn't describe tor. You don't use that many servers (nodes). And it's strength isn't based on number of hops. That's more old school hack a box and put in a chain. Then what's the cloak? Is their ability that they can easy "go around" somehow any X number of connections right to the source?