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I am curious how a .onion domain seizure works. Does this mean the various law enforcement agencies are in possession of the private keys of the services they s

• lucb1e 12y ago
  They somehow find the physical location of the hidden service and then are able to take control (e.g. via a letter to the webhost). After that they have full control over the server and thereby also the key behind the .onion address. How do they find the physical location? This could be by plenty of technical methods, which is really too elaborate to expand on here, but it's almost certainly not a flaw in Tor itself. It's just very hard to do it all correctly from A through Z, one mistake and you're busted, so that's why so many services can be taken down.