Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor and Silk Road

Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by drivebyacct2 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:45AM (#5143697)

It's amazing the stupid things people do to compromise their own identity on Tor. You could take all of my computers and you'd never know that I've used Tor (unless you installed a hardware key logger and then replanted the device)

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by huihe9849hjjgkg on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:31AM (#5143812)

Or viewed your comment history on HN.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by drivebyacct2 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:13AM (#5143903)

I guess I'm fortunate that I live somewhere where it's not illegal to admit to using Tor. My point was more simple that Tor isn't compromised.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by hexonexxon on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:38AM (#5143838)

Or looked at your ISP logs. Did you use Obfsproxy every single time or tunnel Tor through a VPN to your bridge node? probably not

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by Tuna-Fish on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:31AM (#5143946)

No-one sane does anything seriously criminal trough their own link. I built a simple directional wlan antenna. In my small city, within range of my balcony, there are some 300 open or WEP-protected networks. Not that I'd ever steal someone else's internet...

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by nwh on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:34AM (#5144494)

Breaking into someone's network is quite a nasty offence in itself. In Australia (where the story is from), that's hundreds of thousands in fines and jail time.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by stormen on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:18AM (#5144175)

You wouldn't steal a car...

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by seabee on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:19AM (#5143917)

If you're doing it right you aren't doing it at home.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by duaneb on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:24AM (#5143928)

Wouldn't a VPN be good enough?

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by Tuna-Fish on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:32AM (#5143947)

They can still monitor traffic peaks and match those to when criminal activity occurred.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by duaneb on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:27AM (#5144066)

Would that hold up in court? Anyway, I would just saturate the VPN.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by pc86 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @10:39AM (#5145427)

Where are there resources someone can look at to not do those stupid things? I've wanted to use Tor for a while but I always got the impression it was a waste of time because it seems pretty easy to (not) do something that destroys the anonymity.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by drivebyacct3 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:45AM (#5143853)

care to shed some light on how you accomplish this?

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by drivebyacct2 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:14AM (#5143906)

https://tails.boum.org/

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