You don’t understand how the technology works, do you?
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TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 months agoTor is a fed honey pot
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think the concept is if you own enough exit nodes and you have monitors at the backbone level you can correlate traffic with time-based attacks.
The current number of people using tor in a given time isn’t so insurmountable that you can’t throw a couple of data centers worth of VMs at The problem and they’ve had backbone monitoring for decades.
The thing is, the feds aren’t going to come knocking at your door because you are downloading movies. The MPAA figured out a long time ago that it’s a losing battle going after individual people downloading/uploading. If you were trying to use tor to hide behind doing things to harm other people, running terrorist networks and the like, there’s a reasonably good chance they could track you down if you were just using tour but they’d have to really want to do it, and that’s not going to happen for Steve’s half terabyte of CSI.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know if you know this, but the internet is a bit wider than the reach of the US authorities.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hahahahaha
Darpa would like a word with you
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 months ago
While TOR does accept funds from the U.S. federal government it is not a honey pot. Given tor is free and open source it is easy to verify the security of the software.
I use fedora btw (use open source software you fools)
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If no one has told you yet. The feds busted a child porn network in the UK that used for because they were hosting over 65% of the exit nodes at the time. If your open source anonymous VPN is hosted by the feds, they can 100% see where the traffic is coming and where it’s going
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please link to a story substantiating this. What I have heard of happening repeatedly is that they trick criminals into communicating outside of tor, running an executable, or just take over the endpoint and nail people eg take over dark web drug markets and use information to track down the folks using it.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
arstechnica.com/…/feds-bust-through-huge-tor-hidd…
Zetta@mander.xyz 2 months ago
The story you linked is from 2015, and has nothing to do with exit nodes. The feds bsuted the actual server that was used to host csam and kept it up while collecting user information for two weeks. Not exit nodes related.
There are many illegal sites hosted on tor that get taken down quite often. Tor in itself is not an insecure software and it proves that by readily having nefarious and illegal sites operate for long durations of time.
All the instances I have read about large sites that host some form of illegal content on Tor going down have all had quite unique and extensive efforts put in by law enforcement agencies to make the bust happen.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And it is very easy to verify that the feds control enough exit nodes to know that it’s a Honeypot.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, if you’re into that kinda thing, you should look into ceilidh from the cult of the dead cow