Govt Dismissing Darknet Cases due to State Secrets, Illegal Actions, Etc

[Steve Kinney]

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On 01/10/2017 08:49 PM, juan wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:30:34 -0500 grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/playpen-story-fbis-unprecedente
d-and-illegal-hacking-operation
>
>> 
> unprecedented? except for freedom hosting? what the fuck?
> 
> anyway, another great illustration showing what piece of shit the
> tor network is - wouldn't expect less from a cyberweapon whose
> purpose is to serve the pentagon.

I think the Big Secrets they are trying to protect here include:

* The technique the FBI used to ID their child porn customers only
works if the customer is running the TOR Browser on a Microsoft OS
with NoScript in its default "off" position.  The more widely this is
publicized, the more useless the FBI's anti-TOR kit becomes.

* The FBI distributed real child porn for weeks, in an operation not
seeking to prosecute the people who produce it, and not doing anything
to help the victims.  How much of the great unwashed public would
approve of that?  Better toss out a red herring or two, make another
issue the big talking point.

* And yeah, "nobody" wants the general public to understand that the
TOR Browser Bundle is not ten feet tall and bullet proof, so the means
of exploiting it to find a user's IP address has to appear to be a
secret Superpower, not a script kiddie stunt.



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