You're ironically vastly overestimating the cops. It's not that they have good intel, it's that it's copaganda.
They'll just make something up for publicity if they don't get something useful.
Re:Is Tor still safe to use?
by chiefalchemist on Thursday September 19, 2024 @05:27PM
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Evidently, you don't know what the NJ Turnpike is like in terms of volume of traffic.
Says who? The intelligent community entity that busted them? If they're using a tool to discover X or Y they're not to let anyone know that.
For example, I live in the NYC area. A couple of times per year there's a drug bust on the New Jersey Turnpike of a car headed to NYC. The story is always a "random" police stop ends up in a drug bust.
Random? My arse. Of the thousands of cars on the NJTP the cops just happened to pick the one loaded with drugs? A couple times a year? I don't buy it. But what are they going to say? They have someone on the inside that tipped them off? That's not going to happen.
The intelligence community doesn't deal in truth and facts. It deals in misinformation and that the ends justify the means. What they're doing and what they say they're doing are unlikely the same.