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Re:Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon by praptak on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:13AM (#3674632)
Wait, how secure is IRC anyway? The article states that he trusted Sabu, but didn't he also trust the people who ran the IRC servers plus anybody able to sniff their traffic?
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Re:Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon by deno on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @05:45AM (#3675032)
He connected to IRC via Tor overlay. I don’t know what IRC network is Anonymous using, but even Freenode offers native Onion gateway to their network[1].

[1] http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml

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Re:Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon by praptak on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @09:07AM (#3675503)
Ok, scratch "anybody able to sniff their traffic" (assuming both sides use the native gateway.) This still leaves the IRC server itself as a potential vulnerability.
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Re:Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon by runn1ng on Thursday March 08, 2012 @02:14PM (#3681124)
Anonymous are (I think) mostly using anonops. But I personally thought anonops have tor banned by default, so who knows.
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