If this doesn't define what TOR really is, what does?

[juan]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:37:13 -0500
Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:

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> On 03/07/2017 06:27 PM, John Newman wrote:
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> >>> 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.  

	well, this isn't exactly news...

	https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering

	or was your remark sarcastic? =P


> The narrative presented by the FBI, including
> the use of an exploit against Firefox + Microsoft sounded plausible to
> me at the time.
> 
> :o)
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