German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network
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German news outlet Tagesschau reports that local law enforcement agencies have successfully targeted, tracked, and arrested four suspects in a single investigation. The outlaws used Tor to...
  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
    161·
    2 months ago

    Local law enforcement manages what is theoretically possible but would require massive ressources… without given details about what would possibly be a public world-first achievement reserved for state actors definitely not talking about it.

    Sure… sounds reasonable and is totally not an excuse to divert from other questionable investigation methods…

    • unexposedhazardEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Yeah that was the take from most big outlets and tech experts / hackers. Shameful of the news companies to just further the cops blatant lies.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      “This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack.”

      That’s a critical piece of the puzzle, isn’t it? LOL

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        1·
        2 months ago

        So they must’ve disabled the auto update and ran an outdated version? Seems silly. Why even bother with TOR if you don’t keep it up do date?