Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor?

Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by __xtrimsky on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:56PM (#8925711)

nuking kills. slowing down a network you are not forced to use? fine by my standards.

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by rosser on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:29PM (#8925896)

In the case of political dissidents in repressive regimes, compromising Tor can also kill.

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by hellbanner on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:43PM (#8925971)

There was a DEFCON talk about TOR where the speaker advised "All of my friends and contacts in Israel & the Middle East who didn't use TOR -- I no longer hear from them".

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by Zikes on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:12PM (#8925804)

This isn't about the performance of the network. They could've brought it offline and that wouldn't have been as egregious an affront. They willfully subverted the network to invade the privacy and anonymity of the people using it. Regardless of the purpose, the potential damage to the people using it for any reason is too great to ignore. Political dissidents, whistleblowers, journalists, lots of people rely on Tor, and who knows how much of their information was exposed as a result.

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by moe on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:42PM (#8925968)

If it's really that easy to subvert Tor then we should thank the FBI for showing us.

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