> I refuse to believe that the FBI is privy to a funamental TOR break[...] and they're risking revealing it with some darknet busts. This is probably the best

> I refuse to believe that the FBI is privy to a funamental TOR break[...] and they're risking revealing it with some darknet busts. This is probably the best analysis I've heard. If the Tor protocol was broken in some way, agencies would be sitting on it to vacuum up as much information as possible. If the underlying cryptographic primitives were broken in any way, that information would be restricted to the highest levels of government and used against state actors. Darknet busts mean JS browser injection attacks, poor development practices on the server side, or bad human factors (probably this one, from what we're hearing). But more importantly, increasing the frequency of darknet busts gives a hint of what the authorities think about Tor: they don't have fundamental attacks, so it's best to scare people away as much as possible to discourage use.