German news outlet Tagesschau reports that local law enforcement agencies have successfully targeted, tracked, and arrested four suspects in a single investigation. The outlaws used Tor to hide their identities and activities in managing a ransomware operation and hosting child sex abuse material (CSAM) on their servers.

  • 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖
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    162 months ago

    Tor itself was not breached. Rather, the suspects were using an outdated, long-retired app that did not employ some of the protections that are now available, and this, in turn, allowed investigators to carry out the attack.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    That’s what they want you to think, that they cracked TOR anonymization, to make criminals feel less safe and move to other platforms

  • ohellidk
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    22 months ago

    Isn’t TOR partially funded by one of the US alphabet organizations?

    • BrikoXOPM
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      2 months ago

      The majority of it’s funding is from various US entities. Even the whole concept was born from US military. But that really doesn’t mean anything these days. As an open source project, you take money from whoever wants to give it to you. It’s not like users who spend hundreds of dollars on proprietary software per month will give you any.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          And it was created without encryption be default (which was discussed at the time).

          The argument was hardware couldn’t handle the load of encryption at the time. Hahahaha, riiiight.

  • @zzx
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    12 months ago

    You just have to control enough nodes…