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The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-good-of-society dept.

Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes For the last two years, the FBI has been quietly experimenting with drive-by hacks as a solution to one of law enforcement's knottiest Internet problems: how to identify and prosecute users of criminal websites hiding behind the powerful Tor anonymity system. The approach has borne fruit—over a dozen alleged users of Tor-based child porn sites are now headed for trial as a result. But it's also engendering controversy, with charges that the Justice Department has glossed over the bulk-hacking technique when describing it to judges, while concealing its use from defendants.

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  1. The FBI program sounds alot like this one at NSA by sasparillascott · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouldn't be surprised a bit to learn they are related:

    https://firstlook.org/theinter...

    Snowden docs, exceptional description of the Turbine program that seeds malware to non-targeted individuals - goal by the NSA (then) was millions of infections.

    The logical extension of this is, in the end, to compromise all personal and business computer systems - so anything is available when needed.