How Tor Users Got De-anonymized & Caught - Talk from DEFCON 22

Here's a unique historical look at how Tor users have been de-anonymized and caught by Adrian Crenshaw at the DEFCON hacker conference a couple years back.

DROPPING DOCS ON DARKNETS: HOW PEOPLE GOT CAUGHT

https://youtu.be/7G1LjQSYM5Q

Tip o' the hat to /u/SirReal14 for his post in /r/CryptoAnarchy/.

TL;DW


Comments


[14 Points] sadlybadlyy:

Oh god, I actually cringed at the email address with Ross, had never heard of that leading to his arrest.


[8 Points] CookyDough:

What's the TL;DW summary?


[3 Points] None:

Thanks for this, its imformative


[3 Points] TreyWait:

So basically it all boils down to 1 thing: the weak point of all encryption is the human element


[3 Points] noonehear:

"In all of these cases, none of it was a flaw in Tor ... IT WAS ALL BAD OPSEC."...


[2 Points] bitservepd6bb:

A few seconds in:

Firstly, none of these are related to technical exploits in Tor they are all failures in OPSEC.


[1 Points] bitservepd6bb:

Thanks for posting. Great talk.