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> unsubstantiated claim There's a court document from a defender specifically referring to the evidence the FBI is presenting. Lawyers can be severely sanction
by advisedwang 4y ago
> unsubstantiated claim
There's a court document from a defender specifically referring to the evidence the FBI is presenting. Lawyers can be severely sanctioned if they lie in a briefing, so the lawyer drafting that has certainly seen a court document by the FBI stating that they got the IP of this user despite Tor. Bruce never claims more than that.
- remram 4y ago"Got the IP despite Tor" might just be user error, visited the site once with Tor disabled, or logged into the same account elsewhere with both their clear IP and their Tor browser. The exact same thing that happened to Silk Road.
- advisedwang 4y agoThat's possible, but the blog never claims otherwise. In fact it says "There are lots of ways to de-anonymize Tor users" so I think it's unfair to say Bruce is making unsubstantiated claims.
- remram 4y agoWhen you say "de-anonymize a Tor user", the implicit but unambiguous meaning is that you attacked Tor, not found the information from somewhere else. Just like when you say "a BMW driver crashed into a mall", you mean that they did it with their BMW, not with the Subaru that they also own.
- advisedwang 4y agoThe language in the blog post, "There are lots of ways to ..." is explicitly highlighting the ambiguity.
- remram 4y agoYeah, maybe so. The linked slide does list "user error" as one of the angles.