The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they caught him anyway

Re:The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they ... by millzlane on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @11:40AM (#6928548)

They caught him because he was signed into the wifi network using his personal credentials. Had he went to a Starbucks or McDonalds we'd be having a different discussion.

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Re:The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they ... by peter303 on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @11:44AM (#6928593)

He would have been on survellience video in both of those places

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Re:The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they ... by Robin_Message on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:23PM (#6928895)

However, his use of Tor would mean the authorities wouldn't know which surveillance video to look at.

He was caught because they probably assumed the threat was an internal hoax, checked the logs and found only one or a few internal users on Tor at the right time, then got a police officer to ask each of them if they had done anything wrong [1]. One confessed, and there you go.

Morale of the story: don't do illegal things, and if you do want to do illegal things, have a cover story and don't admit things based on inferences from investigators.

[1] In fact, they probably overrepresented the evidence and then left him to talk himself into being convicted.

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Re:The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they ... by shawabawa3 on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:23PM (#6928888)

Sit in your car/on a bench outside mcdonalds/starbucks in a security camera blindspot?

edit: Or how about a prepaid cell phone 3g connection?

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Re:The bomb-hoaxing Harvard student was using Tor, but they ... by cantfindmypass on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:16PM (#6928836)

But would they have known to look there?

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