-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2017 06:27 PM, John Newman wrote:
Not sure about those two. Another explanation could be this :
there wasn't any malware served, and the users of the site were identified using plain old traffic analysis. That's certainly something that both the government AND the tor mafia would like to sweep under the rug.
I think that might be very likely. How many times has the tor project publicly acknowledged attacks involving ephemeral setup of large number of tor nodes for purpose of attack?
Would NSA even need to own any nodes considering how many different places they have taps into the internet? I don't think so.
Sounds reasonable if NSA was involved: But this show was billed as an FBI production, and I don't think the NSA ventures into law enforcement territory. The narrative presented by the FBI, including the use of an exploit against Firefox + Microsoft sounded plausible to me at the time. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYv5iJAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq1lcIALirvX7yZ10VI8sbQNyjrPLI hcXa4kiQF4yvzGZMLYaXGCVHU8VJ2J0qE0YBr/vG5K0Z1LjiwMuPxNUgg3worx9n NXRMWO5LaF/4F5b6nQPuqlt/fpizKMpr3WTuhLTz2FkR+rMonlCVFm3QdsQ9dvwJ haZ/UwetKzJNxJfFDQNCKobtknZyfs05hUvcdWMLefiZeOXD9duNmk8PUNBwJy4I +Y+467G9BKDrs5AUQVe4rKBWoG4xI8ewB7Ks1oHjWueAhZ9vGyaTWx7dvRl/iOqK RU7UplXG8H72BwFQDABbxPRpgli+zc4NKAH1WlOk00rKXWzfDKZ4gSCuJ7uC/Do= =B6WC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----