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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by jstanley on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:22PM (#18506221)
The hoster certainly has the power to scam people, but he doesn't have the power to deanonymise them.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by mirimir on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:30PM (#18507149)
He does, if he drops phone-home malware. As the FBI has done, at least twice.
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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by sandworm101 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:46AM (#18508123)
That in turn only works where the users havent taken additional steps beyond Tor. Tor was never meant to solve every problem.
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