https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tor-network-compromised-single-hacker-175012920.html
this is just the first link....no one knows who this "hacker" is....could be a government.
https://invisibler.com/tor-compromised/ this is what i was referring to originally..i just happened to come across the first link by chance.
Also. the state of the onion address back in 2014 ish ..they said the NSA had compromised one of the nodes and they where trying to isolate it... then the fuck tard running the spice road got caught by using the La public library wifi twice in a row....fucking moron.
...the spice road...
silk road :)
there's another possible angle to all of this - isn't is possible that some of the exploits regarding Tor are disinformation in order to keep people away from it?
in the end i guess it's irrelevant because if one doesn't know for certain, you can't trust it anyway
well what information we do have is...
- They where actively hunting Jakob Applebaum for years...his American citizenship was revoked when he left for a conference in Germany in 2014- 2015 ish ...i can get the dates but who cares.( it might have been a bit earlier)
- The Onion project was repeatedly confronted by government agencies asking for the developers to make a "back door" before 2014 many, many times...they refused and then the drama started. ( and this is after the network was supposedly compromised)..links already in thread.
- it was created at least to my understanding to allow the people in countries with totalitarian regimes to get information out to the world without getting caught in the process, and it worked well.
- Bitcoins...im sure the IRS hates those things (because they cant tax it) and they want that shit gone bad and its still here. I used to break blocks ..it was fun until it wasn't anymore.
I think they got control of a node or some nodes but couldnt get full info on what was going on in the network itself..only what they could glean off of the compromised nodes.
..and its the silk road, your right..lol.
it was created at least to my understanding to allow the people in countries ...
Tor was created by US mil. - Navy i believe - in order to communicate securely - it is still (last i checked) funded by DoD/Navy
apparently they released the source to encourage civi's to use it, the logic being that the more people on it, the more 'noise' on the network and thus the harder it becomes to identify who's talking to who
Bitcoins...im sure the IRS hates those things
perhaps paranoia on my part, but i wonder about that - TPTB very much want to move to digital currencies so that every transaction can be tracked - was this the motive behind BC? who was the developer? apparently no one knows for certain ... hmmm
wow-wee - and that's been going on for months
thanks for that
(cleaned link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tor-network-compromised-single-hacker-175012920.html)
also...
Back before 2012 you just had to hide your IP before you entered Tor...the entrance and exit nodes where being watched, but they couldnt tell what your where doing when you entered.
"In October 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shut down the website and arrested Ross Ulbricht under charges of being the site's pseudonymous founder "Dread Pirate Roberts". On 6 November 2013, Silk Road 2.0 came online, run by former administrators of Silk Road. It was also shut down, and the alleged operator was arrested on 6 November 2014 as part of the so-called "Operation Onymous". Ulbricht was convicted of seven charges related to Silk Road in the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.In November 2020, the United States government seized more than one billion dollars worth of bitcoins connected to Silk Road" I pulled the above info off of Wikipedia.
i always had a strange feeling about Tor - i've read in the past that there were known bugs that weren't fixed, or where patches seem to have been delayed
of course the risks are the same with a VPN
i'm well aware of the Ulbricht case - that poor fella does not belong in prison
as i recall, the fags... scuse me... feds we able to penetrate the network because they physically observed Ulbricht logging on
one of those fuck-sticks later stole a bunch of coinage and there was a lot of other shit that went down - his mom has given many interviews about the whole mess
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