Friday, 4. April 2014

Yes, Federal Agents Can Identify Anonymous Tor Users, Because Most People Don't Know How To Be Anonymous


For many, many years now, we keep hearing law enforcement whine about the "threats" of anonymity and how people would be able to get away with all sorts of criminal activity if they weren't given the ability to track, monitor and tap pretty much every communications technology that has come along. A decade ago the fear was that free and open WiFi was going to be a major boon to criminals who could use it "with no trace." As we pointed out, however, nothing about using an anonymous connection like that means you won't get caught, because criminals have to do a lot of things, many of which will expose them in other ways, without having to tap and track every technological interaction. What's known as good old-fashioned detective work can often track down criminals who used tools to be anonymous -- and for years, we've pointed out many, many, many examples of this.

techdirt.com

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