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part of my job is to monitor tor and find people from using it, easier than you'd think.. so i wouldn't bankshot on that alone

chejazi 6y ago
what is your job?
- nixgeek 6y ago
  It isn’t necessarily nefarious. Account signups, bill payments and any ‘commercial activity’ conducted from Tor exits receives additional scrutiny in the security and fraud teams of many companies. Known exits may also be blocked entirely. Due to the nature of what Tor is and provides it’s unfortunately somewhat expected that bad behaviors happen significantly more from Tor exits than from users on an IP address from residential providers like Comcast.
qz2 6y ago
Can you please get a different job?
- ben_w 6y ago
  This sounds like shooting the messenger. If it’s practical to break TOR (even just in part rather than in whole), it still will be even if @moocowtruck does change employer — you just won’t have anyone alerting you that you’re insufficiently cautious.
  - moocowtruck 6y ago
    yep! and i wouldnt get a different job since this one pays very well :D
redflame8 6y ago
Get a new job. If it were as easy as you say it is, why is thepiratebay still around?
RankingMember 6y ago
I wouldn't think it'd be hard to find people using TOR, it's the stuff you're doing while you're on TOR that should be more difficult to track.
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- giantg2 6y ago
  As long as it's not the NSA doing the tracking (they own a sufficient percentage of the nodes).
input_sh 6y ago
...and judging by your comment history, you work for USPS? The fuck does your job have to do with Tor?
- hiram112 6y ago
  Interesting. I think a lot Darknet activity goes through Tor. The resulting drug purchases to and within the US will end up going through USPS. If I had Congressional funds to go after illegal drug shipments made through Darknet sites, I'd definitely be using Tor to make purchases from the biggest dealers on the most popular sites, and then investigating the source addresses, the types of packaging used to conceal the shipments, etc. While I think it's immoral and a waste of taxpayer money to go after small time users buying personal quantities of drugs and controlled meds, it would be a satisfying and interesting job to help take down large suppliers of fentanyl laced drugs that are causing ODs all over the country.
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chejazi 6y ago

what is your job?

nixgeek 6y ago
It isn’t necessarily nefarious. Account signups, bill payments and any ‘commercial activity’ conducted from Tor exits receives additional scrutiny in the security and fraud teams of many companies. Known exits may also be blocked entirely. Due to the nature of what Tor is and provides it’s unfortunately somewhat expected that bad behaviors happen significantly more from Tor exits than from users on an IP address from residential providers like Comcast.

qz2 6y ago

Can you please get a different job?

ben_w 6y ago
This sounds like shooting the messenger. If it’s practical to break TOR (even just in part rather than in whole), it still will be even if @moocowtruck does change employer — you just won’t have anyone alerting you that you’re insufficiently cautious.
- moocowtruck 6y ago
  yep! and i wouldnt get a different job since this one pays very well :D

redflame8 6y ago

Get a new job. If it were as easy as you say it is, why is thepiratebay still around?

RankingMember 6y ago

I wouldn't think it'd be hard to find people using TOR, it's the stuff you're doing while you're on TOR that should be more difficult to track.

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giantg2 6y ago
As long as it's not the NSA doing the tracking (they own a sufficient percentage of the nodes).

input_sh 6y ago

...and judging by your comment history, you work for USPS? The fuck does your job have to do with Tor?

hiram112 6y ago
Interesting. I think a lot Darknet activity goes through Tor. The resulting drug purchases to and within the US will end up going through USPS. If I had Congressional funds to go after illegal drug shipments made through Darknet sites, I'd definitely be using Tor to make purchases from the biggest dealers on the most popular sites, and then investigating the source addresses, the types of packaging used to conceal the shipments, etc. While I think it's immoral and a waste of taxpayer money to go after small time users buying personal quantities of drugs and controlled meds, it would be a satisfying and interesting job to help take down large suppliers of fentanyl laced drugs that are causing ODs all over the country.
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