So...Tor is run by governments as a privacy honey-pot?

[Red Shield]

Im not sure about honeytrap but I know its not foolproof. It should be seen as one tool in a toolkit. in regards to anonymity.

The best way feds catch people they are after is when they slip up. The Tools might be perfect, but humans definitely aren't. Look how they caught some of these big market owners, they used their darknet identity usernames on the normal internet. Or something similarly stupid.

or fukk up and mix their legal money accounts with their illegal money accounts

 

[PikaDaDon]

I remember this guy at some college emailed in a bomb threat to avoid his exam. He used Tor and thought his smart ass wouldn't get caught. All IT had to do was trace the Tor node the email came from and then find everyone at the school that had accessed Tor in that time period.

His mistake was not using a tor bridge or connecting to a VPN first.

His ass got expelled and arrested. Tor is not secure, especially if there is Flash or other stuff not covered under HTTP port 80.

The Tor browser comes with the NoScript plugin that disables flash, javascript, etc.

Everything is run by the government in someway. Google is basically the CIA.

Project Keyhole, y'all

Mobile Internet > VPN > Tor> RDP = Mission succesful

Public wifi + VPN (paid anonymously with bitcoin) + tor bridge (all while using TAILS or whonix linux) = success

OR replace 'public wifi' with 'hacking your neighbor's wifi w/ aircrack-ng'

I can believe this, it's perfect way of the Feds to find online lunatics, psychos, drug dealers, hitman, etc

You name it.

There are lunatics and psychos on the clearnet as well. Instagram drug dealers too

Im not sure about honeytrap but I know its not foolproof. It should be seen as one tool in a toolkit. in regards to anonymity.

The best way feds catch people they are after is when they slip up. The Tools might be perfect, but humans definitely aren't. Look how they caught some of these big market owners, they used their darknet identity usernames on the normal internet. Or something similarly stupid.

Correct. The suite of tools you can utilize work well. The problem is human error.

or fukk up and mix their legal money accounts with their illegal money accounts

Money laundering is an art.

 

[ill]

Everything is run by the government in someway. Google is basically the CIA.

Its scary how true the second part of your statement is.

 

[ill]

Mobile Internet > VPN > Tor> RDP = Mission succesful

Whats RDP?

 

[88m3]

Its scary how true the second part of your statement is.

Scary?

 

[BaggerofTea]

Is this really a surprise?

 

[ill]

Scary?

That Google is basically an extension of the CIA? Yeah, thats fairly scary and intrusive tbh.

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

if you've ever used tor you know that it runs slower because of all the reroutes. in order to mitigate that it automatically reroutes you through more powerful servers. so it stands to reason that most of them are run by either us gov't agencies or other state intelligence agencies just because they would have the resources to operate servers that can handle that type of bandwidth.

 

[MrPentatonic]

Whats RDP?

Remotely controlling another computer basically

 

[PikaDaDon]

That Google is basically an extension of the CIA? Yeah, thats fairly scary and intrusive tbh.

He probably doesn't think it's a big deal. He's probably the type who thinks Edward Snowden should be hung for treason.

 

[Sidley]

Tor being a US gov honeypot makes lot of sense. How many times did silk road get shutdown? 3 times now I think? If Tor is so secure/anonymous then this would be impossible. Or at least would have taken much longer to shut down/find culprits.

Also Dead07 is a govenment Psy op troll. Everyone here knows this correct?

The Onion Routing protocol itself is nearly flawless. People are often caught using vulnerabilities within the software laid on top of Tor itself, AND human error. Bad javascript, re-using usernames, etc. This is why it's recommended to use something like 'Whonix'. It's secure by default, and can be run as a live system on an encrypted flash drive or something of the sort.

 

[88m3]

That Google is basically an extension of the CIA? Yeah, thats fairly scary and intrusive tbh.

The government already knows everything about you from your banking and taxes.

 

[88m3]

Tor being a US gov honeypot makes lot of sense. How many times did silk road get shutdown? 3 times now I think? If Tor is so secure/anonymous then this would be impossible. Or at least would have taken much longer to shut down/find culprits.

Also Dead07 is a govenment Psy op troll. Everyone here knows this correct?

Exactly.