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Re:Law Enforcement Undermines Tor by rmarq10 on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:56AM (#41944383)
The articled confirms that the authorities are conducting a dragnet operation. Everyone who connected to a certain entry relay was tracked and reported.

Does the tor daemon connect automatically? If so, even people who installed tor for fun and forget about may be on the list.

Did the lucky ones have the "Bundestrojaner" (gov surveillance app) installed on their machines?

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Re:Law Enforcement Undermines Tor by potato3732842 on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:22AM (#41944543)
>If so, even people who installed tor for fun and forget about may be on the list.

Good. That reduces the quality of the list.

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Re:Law Enforcement Undermines Tor by immibis on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:52AM (#41944772)
They selected that relay after they determined it was the one used by the person they were trying to go after. That isn't a dragnet.

There probably is a dragnet too.

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