FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by nitrogen on Saturday September 14, 2013 @02:53AM (#6384910)

That reminds me of a story I read about how the satellite companies foiled carders by slowly building up a new decryption system out of apparent garbage released across a long string of updates. I don't dare to search for it though, so I don't have a link.

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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by khoffrath on Saturday September 14, 2013 @05:06AM (#6385089)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/revisiting-the-blac...

Original article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/01/01/25/1343218/directvs-sec...

Fascinating background story here: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/tarnovsk...

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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by FajitaNachos on Saturday September 14, 2013 @08:18AM (#6385351)

Nice article. It's the first time I've heard of it, and I enjoyed reading it.

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Re:FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware ... by anaphor on Saturday September 14, 2013 @01:56PM (#6386434)

Thanks for mentioning that, I had a feeling of deja vu that I couldn't figure out. It was an awesome hack anyway.

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