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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by w1ntermute on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:26AM (#8572369)
I think that the feds having found and exploited a Tor vulnerability is much less likely than them having violated the law in the process of their investigation and then covered it up with parallel construction.
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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by privong on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:32AM (#8572397)
That may very well be true, but in the absence of supporting evidence, prudence would suggest caution (with respect to tor) is not a bad idea.
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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by tomp on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:46AM (#8572436)
But Tor should protect against illegal actions as much as against legal ones. Unless, of course, they hacked into the servers (using flaws unrelated to Tor), but the problem is how these servers were even located!
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