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The US Government also funded and build the Internet (or at least ARPAnet). The government also benefits from Tor being actually anonymous. It is worth being a
by time_to_smile 4y ago
The US Government also funded and build the Internet (or at least ARPAnet). The government also benefits from Tor being actually anonymous.
It is worth being aware of course, but to my knowledge we have no evidence that Federal law enforcement has used anything other than old fashioned detective work to solve any Tor related cases.
There's always the possibility of parallel construction, but I would expect some reasonable evidence supporting this in some high profile busts.
- themoonisachees 4y agoIt would however be common sense that the US gov. Wouldn't burn a TOR 0-day (or other means of breaking tor anonymity) for anything but the highest of high profile cases, especially considering it would end up in court records. They can either spy and let it slide because 1 guy buying weed on whatever replaced the silk road isn't worth that, or they can find the guy, arrest him if he's done something big enough and invent a way they found him. Hell, they could even say they found him on clearnet, the guy isn't gona go "your honor, i sure did buy those illegal drugs online but i used TOR so how did they find out" My current biggest reason to believe TOR isn't breached on a massive scale is that snowden had nothing to show about it.