Policing the dark net
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TOR has security holes the way everything does. Theoretically it's not totally impossible to police it (look at the bringing down of silk road) and eventually people slip up and draw attention to themselves.
It's a shame really that something that has been used for bringing social and democratic revolution in some countries with extreme internet blocking can also be used for such horrible means.
It's a shame really that something that has been used for bringing social and democratic revolution in some countries with extreme internet blocking can also be used for such horrible means.
Is there a TOR splinter program? I always thought it was possible for the governments to compromise it because it was initially built by them. Unless there are TOR spin-offs isn't it like using a police channel to organise a robbery?
Indeed with wi-fi etc, it's now becoming pretty easy to deploy your own high bandwidth medium area network, your own personal internet as it were, completely unregulated and inaccessible to authorities.
If that was the case then every un-wanted dark web site would be shut down would it not?
Are all of them accessible through TOR only?
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If the human race wasn't so hell bent on misbehaving the dark net wouldn't exist, the authorities have got more chance of eradicating all the crime in the real world before they get to grips with the virtual world.
As long as there is demand for such services then they will always exist.
As long as there is demand for such services then they will always exist.
I think you're missing something. Firstly Silk Road is back up. Secondly the issues with TOR were because people were exploiting out of date (and also due to government agencies introducing spyware to it).
It's always interesting when BBC / etc. cover this and say 'random torrent site' here has been blocked. Because it's basically giving people a link to it and it's so easy to get around it.
The internet should be free and it's a moral choice to go wherever you want to go. One that has consequences should you miss behave and get caught.
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They have enough organisations at work trying to stop things with enough money allocated to them. Id prefer if they continued to try and stop, using what they currently have available than make stupid laws that don't solve the problem but affect everyone else negatively.
Most of the dark net investigations will be infiltration based. That is how they have taken down some of the biggest internet groups in the past. if you look at the case of Jeremy Hammond and stratfor, apparently the guy that he worked with was an fbi informant and hammond says that the idea to attack stratfor came from the fbi. This is the common sort of thread that we see with a lot of these cases. The fbi have an idea that X is engaged in criminal activity so they set him up to take him down.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/jeremy-hammond-fbi-directed-attacks-foreign-government
Most of the dark net investigations will be infiltration based. That is how they have taken down some of the biggest internet groups in the past. if you look at the case of Jeremy Hammond and stratfor, apparently the guy that he worked with was an fbi informant and hammond says that the idea to attack stratfor came from the fbi. This is the common sort of thread that we see with a lot of these cases. The fbi have an idea that X is engaged in criminal activity so they set him up to take him down.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/jeremy-hammond-fbi-directed-attacks-foreign-government