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The BBC article[1] says they were caught by a mistake made outside of Tor: But the porn ring was broken when an item was sent through the US Postal Service to
by DougWebb 13y ago
The BBC article[1] says they were caught by a mistake made outside of Tor:
But the porn ring was broken when an item was sent through the US Postal Service to a child, Ice Cyber Crime Centre Programme Manager James Kilpatrick told Reuters. That development led the authorities to Mr Johnson.
If they can track Tor sites directly, they're not saying. To me this sounds like Bitcoin: it's anonymous as long as you never ever link a transaction to a real-world identity. Once you do, everything that was once anonymous is now linked to you.
This isn't really new either; for a long time now you could create a fake identity and use it for whatever purposes, and your real identity would be protected and separate until you made a mistake which linked the two.
[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26639092 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26639092
- 001sky 13y agoparallel construction
- pbhjpbhj 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction That was my thought too [though I didn't know the term] - Tor has been compromised in the past hasn't it?
- IceyEC 13y agoTor hasn't been compromised, the Firefox installation that Tor is shipped with has been exploited before though.
- belorn 13y agoconspiracy theory If you have something to actually point towards parallel construction rather than "it could be", please provide those. Otherwise, term wars define that conspiracy theory always beats parallel construction.
- sailfast 13y agoAgreed. Even a conspiracy theorist has to admit it unlikely for the Postal Inspector to have jurisdiction over this kind of operation unless something was sent through the mail. DHS doesn't typically even involve themselves in this kind of thing.
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