Re:Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users
by meowface on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:29PM
(#12125435)
It's funny, because just with a little hostname and MAC spoofing, he probably could've gotten away with it even if he sent it from their wireless network with no anonymization whatsoever. (Depending on how it does authentication, at least.)
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Re:Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users
by MichaelGG on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @07:04PM
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Nope, not needed. He had gotten away with it! There was no evidence that the target was on campus. Just a lucky lead for the university. All he had to say was he was browsing "personal" sites, or looking up Onion sites out of curiosity, etc. Just a basic cover. Instead, he caved immediately.
Maybe they would have found other evidence. But it wouldn't have been just him connecting to Tor.