FBI cracked Tor???

https://reason.com/blog/2016/03/02/fbi-beat-tor-anonymity-via-academic-rese

^ Was reading the above article, and it says the FBI can trace hidden services and the users that go to them. idk how creditable it since theirs a ton of DNM running perfectly fine.

Anyways your thoughts?


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[16 Points] FrozenMCVegetableCok:

The FBI are essentially fighting against another part of our own government by trying to crack TOR. Our government created the Tor network to enable secure data movement to and from people around the world that needed to remain hidden for their own safety. People in heavily censored countries, people operating in an intelligence capacity, and people within the government who need secured communications when they don't have access to proper encryption hardware while not in their office are all examples of what TOR was designed and created to serve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29

"The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online."

The FBI didn't get invited to the party though since they're limited to mostly domestic matters and they've been trying to throw a wrench in the works ever since the Naval brass and DoD told them to go pound sand. It's why the FBI had to pay a private entity to do their dirty work.


[6 Points] Devoid_:

They fixed it with simple packet obfuscation


[2 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

its been known for a while.


[3 Points] The_fire_bird:

The users are normally safe. What most people continually overlooked back when this was news, was that even if a server is identified, even if they can see that you connected to it, what they never claimed to be able to do, was see what you were doing on said servers -- and that's because they couldn't.

They couldn't see what you were GET-ing, or what you were POST-ing, and with the way the markets worked, they couldn't even see when you paid for something, because they didn't send from one bitcoin address to another at the time of payment, what they did was add credits to your account in the database when funds arrive, and when you pay for something, they subtract them from your account, and add them to the vendor's. Just literally updating two lines in a database (these actions tend not to be timestamped, so the dibble can't prove the moment at which the credits changed ownership, which prevents them from linking it to a specific data stream packet). The money movement isn't based on a user's input, it moves to other addresses frequently and regularly, whether or not anyone is doing anything.

Some people though, didn't know this. Some people believed that if they used Tor that they could never be found (Who possibly got their cocky attitude from Ulbricht). They can find you without too much effort, but then they have to go through the motions of proving what they've found, and that's a very different (and for just a user, a much harder) job.

Most people fold at this point though, which is sad, because it's not the completely hopeless position people often feel it is.


[2 Points] lordredvampire:

They were able to crack it based on vulnerabilities, not TOR itself, otherwise all DNM would have shut down.


[1 Points] None:

the fed's paid then "ONE MILLION" dollars to crack it.....


[0 Points] None:

I think that they are trying to catch pedophiles and murders on Tor rather than people purchasing personal usage of drugs.


[-2 Points] BlankBlapperson:

Think it might be time to move to zeronet. Looks very promising.