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FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database
An anonymous reader writes "Tor Mail was an anonymized email service run over Tor. It was operated by a company called Freedom Hosting, which was shut down by the FBI last August. The owner was arrested for 'enabling child porn,' and the Tor Mail servers suddenly began hosting FBI malware that attempted to de-anonymize users. Now, Wired reports on a new court filing which indicates that the FBI was also able to grab Tor Mail's entire email database. 'The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: "platplus@tormail.net." Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau's own copy of "data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts," according to the complaint (PDF) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.'"
Simply put: it was a lie. The FBI raided the Freedom Hosting guy for tormail. That the Freedom Hosting guy was providing hosting to kiddy porn sites (along with quite a few other non-kiddy-porn users) was just icing on the cake.
Fuck sakes - is CP now the backdoor to the whole US Constitution (not to mention the means by which anyone, anywhere, can be arrested for any reason?)
"Fighting the War on: terrorism, drugs, freedom er preserving out way of life, ...." is still relevant.
See, the security services are now using people's fear and subsequent irrationality to justify their violations of the Constitution and people's basic unalienable Rights.
Our Government has become out of control.
NO! Violence! EVER! (Contrary to the NRA's position of "fighting tyranny" - but what do you expect from a bunch of fat blowhards who shoot at stationary targets once a week or so and feel real BIG. ). Violence will just lead to the Government labeling you as a terrorist and child killer or whatever and the media - all the media - will eat it up: the media is just a bunch of unquestioning sheep (especially Fox) and they only ask "questions" when it can boost ratings while fitting into their audience's World view - like Fox.
We the People need to stop being distracted by issues like abortion, gay marriage, and even government finances - for the time being. The ruling class is using those issues to divide us and distract us!
If you vote on social or fiscal issues, you are being distracted and manipulated.
Go ahead and flame me. Hate me. Please. BUT in November and in November of 2016, please listen to yourself and say, "Fuck AC he's an asshole! But I WILL NOT BE MANIPULATED BY THE RULING CLASS!"
And IF abortion IS really all that you live for, please, go ahead and vote with your heart.
All I'm saying is that we're being manipulated for purposes that I don't understand - yes, I AM coming across as a kook and no, I will NOT use the naysayers of NSA spying years ago as an example on how I "could" be right.
Just look for yourselfs - and I want to be labeled a kook because then the security services will - sort of - ignore me.
By any chance, does anyone have a reading list for those that fought the Stazi?