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the chassis of the servers was opened and an unknown USB device was plugged in only 30-60 seconds before the connection was broken. In which country did this h
by nullflow 12y ago
the chassis of the servers was opened and an unknown USB device was plugged in only 30-60 seconds before the connection was broken.
In which country did this happen?
As an European I expected the US/EU governments would keep their hands of Tor because dissidents use it in countries where US/EU want regime change.
- tankenmate 12y agoNederlands $ whois 77.95.229.11
- SchizoDuckie 12y agoWTF?! Since when do we backdoor hardware in The Netherlands without informing the owner?
- Havoc 12y agoI'm sure even the Netherlands has some kind of mechanism in place to allow this if a sufficiently powerful court order is in place.
- tinco 12y agoFeel free to drop the 'even' in that sentence. Just say the magic words 'child pornography' and the judge will go and install that bug himself. Tor has a very bad reputation in The Netherlands, I think just saying it's a Tor node might be enough reason for a judge to sign off on an eaves-dropping warrant.
- EarthLaunch 12y agoIt's not less possible, you're just more ignorant of it than America is.
- anigbrowl 12y agoHold off on the conclusion-jumping = 'possibly consistent with X' is a long way from 'proof of X'.
- redthrowaway 12y agoThe USG is not a monolithic entity. The State Department loves TOR, for the reasons you list, while Justice hates it. The Justice Department does not need State approval to get warrants and take down servers, nor do they need State approval to work with their foreign partners to do the same.
- mpyne 12y agoOne of my favorite examples of this: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-07/news/mn-1711_1_rocky-flats-fbi-and-epa-justice-department http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-07/news/mn-1711_1_rocky-...
- rtpg 12y agoEven on a more practical level, aren't all major hosting providers ones that follow standards where getting a USB drive onto a server would be extremely easy to trace back? Where was this guy keeping his servers?
- tw04 12y agoThe US/EU governments run their own nodes. Why WOULDN'T they take down third parties that aren't willing to give them the access they need to sniff traffic? Their support of dissidents in other countries doesn't require private nodes to exist.
- spacefight 12y agoWhich nodes are gov run?