Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps

tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m still not entirely convinced that tor is as protected as people think it is.

  There’s only something like 6,000 exit nodes. It really wouldn’t be that much money for the government to run thousands of them. If you monitor enough exit nodes and enough relays, you can start to statistically tie connections back together with timing analysis.

  I don’t know this to be the case for sure but I can’t imagine the government hasn’t pushed towards breaking the security and identifiability of the tor network

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you read a lot of news, it’s really clear Tor isn’t protecting anyone from the FBI. It’s about as effective as using limewire at this point. Which also, the reporting makes it pretty clear it’s not effective to hide criminal acts in the least. But it’s pretty great abusers think it’s effective so they get caught.

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you read the news it’s really clear people commit opsec mistakes - all it takes is one - and get caught.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Shhh I want an excuse to not protect my privacy, it’s hard

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I2P has more protection against this kind of analysis.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would be more effective if you spread the load between the 5+ eyes instead.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not as protected as people think it is. This has popped up on headlines for years. It helps, but if someone really wants to find you on there, they can. It’s just not as easy.

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• Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you share the source

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sure

    www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nsa-tracks-google-ads-to-find-tor-users/

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      11 years ago

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      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for pointing out, but how have things changed since then?

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