The FBI Identified a Tor User

Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by LastTrain on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:40AM (#34412871)

So you did illegal things illegally. And who owned the public AP? Someone not as smart as you? You sure?

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by causi on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:48AM (#34412982)

So you did illegal things illegally.

Yep. I said I don't understand people who do illegal things over their own connection, i.e., stupidly.

And who owned the public AP?

McDonald's.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by VWWHFSfQ on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:38AM (#34413751)

McDonald's has video cameras pointing at every inch of their property 24/7. All they need is a timestamp from the AP and they'll go find your license plate in the parking lot on the surveillance tapes.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by Fnoord on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:47AM (#34413897)

Don't use a car or your own car.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by notch656c on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:49AM (#34413931)

What kind of idiot drives a car with a valid personal license plate while committing crime?

I don't even drive a car when I'm selling shit on craigslist for fear they'll look up the plate and do dumb shit when they're mad the drill I sold them has normal battery life.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by jollyllama on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:32AM (#34414592)

Most criminals (they're risk takers) don't really think these things out and a large percentage of them get away all the time. Stuff goes wrong, footage goes missing, cameras don't work, prosecution bungles some rules, etc.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by VWWHFSfQ on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:51AM (#34413974)

I would ask what kind of idiot drives with an invalid license plate

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by counttheforks on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:19AM (#34414380)

Did you miss the part about a long range wifi antenna?

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:49AM (#34414854)

A guy on my street grabbed a nearby box store's WiFi and repeated it over an overamp'd, open AP.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by causi on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:35PM (#34418557)

I wasn't in the parking lot or anywhere near it for that matter.

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by hinata08 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:29AM (#34413587)

using such setup wouldn't prevent anyone from finding you if you did illegal things that really mattered, like donating to a terrorist organization

you can proudly use it to download torrents (because nobody cares and the feds won't triangulate a signal for torrents), but they can definitely do it for terrorism and intelligence matters. (check out all the stories of spies who had radios, from the 1914 to SOE to cold war)

As a bonus, you even post your story on HN, a site where analysts from all the governments and major companies of the planet meet to talk about tech...

this guy was probably more careful than you

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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by LastTrain on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:40PM (#34415677)

I was more taking issue with your misplaced confidence about using a public AP than your doing illegal things.

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