After Farrell’s arrest last year, it appeared that he was among the suspects from dark web identified after the attack on Tor network launched by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The SEI discovered about 78 IP addresses, which accessed Silk Road 2.0’s .onion address. One of the addresses led to Farrell.
So, Brian was one of the admins, and even if he was stupid enough to access the market or the Tor network itself through his own internet connection, he most likely used a VPN at least, right? But even if not, is it that easy to trace someone through Tor?
And now that we are at it, Brian would probably not have been a suspect if they didn't trace back one of the IPs back to him, right? So, how to avoid this?
So, Brian was one of the admins, and even if he was stupid enough to access the market or the Tor network itself through his own internet connection, he most likely used a VPN at least, right? But even if not, is it that easy to trace someone through Tor?
And now that we are at it, Brian would probably not have been a suspect if they didn't trace back one of the IPs back to him, right? So, how to avoid this?