On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:44:51AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
And even if you can only access the service using Tor, that doesn't mean you can't set up Tor wrong, which was one of his points. And while he
Tor is explicitly not designed to protect against a global passive adversary (traffic/timing attacks). For such it should be reasonably easy to locate a particular hidden service, and only slightly more difficult to identify individual users (e.g. it makes sense to keep http://ld3ervkde3fv2vlr.onion/forum/ around as a potential honeypot).
mentioned that that kilo of coke you're being shipped may be coming from somebody the Feds are watching, people dealing in that kind of volume are more likely to be careful. But people buying personal-use retail quantities of drugs, like the guy buying that 10-strip of acid? They're more likely to be buying it from somebody who's not careful, or for that matter the dealer may be a Fed or an informant. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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