A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?

Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by agoristen on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:21PM (#22291717)

This report came out only a few months before he was caught: https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1guiav/we_have_anal...

He was likely de-anonymized through this technique or similar. The issue was that he trusted the Tor network to keep him anonymous and paid for the servers with his real identity.

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by robtaylor on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:57PM (#22293839)

"https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1guiav/we_have_anal...

We have analyzed for those wondering!

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by justaj on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:46PM (#22292504)

Just to be clear: The v3 onion services fix that weakness, right?

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by emayljames on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:10PM (#22292717)

I am merely give my opinion, but a service created by the US government/Military is going to have undocumented "issues". I would not trust it one shred.

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by bufferoverflow on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:15PM (#22292767)

Tor is open source:

https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/

So, no undocumented issues.

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by emayljames on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:29PM (#22294110)

Yes, it is Open Source of course, by undocumented I refer to vulnerabilities that are not documented or found in the open yet. The best yardstick out there is to say 'would Edward Snowden use/recommend it?'.

Edit: https://edwardsnowden.com/docs/doc/tor-stinks-presentation.p...

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by jokoon on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:18PM (#22293484)

I believe tor was researched designed and developed by the government

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by kyuudou on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:45PM (#22295537)

NRL (Naval Research Lab)

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Re:A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? by ngcc_hk on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:09PM (#22293377)

Issues can be undocumented if it is found by the 3 letter one, as pointed out in the article.

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