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DOJ Official Tells 100 Federal Judges To Use Tor (vice.com)
The director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice urged a roomful of 100 federal judges to use Tor to protect their computers, remembers judge Robert J. Bryan. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vice:
While the US is the biggest funder of the non-profit that maintains the software, law enforcement bodies such as the FBI are exploiting Tor browser vulnerabilities on a huge scale to identify criminal suspects. To add to that messy, nuanced mix, one Department of Justice official recently personally recommended Tor to a room of over a hundred federal judges...
"I almost felt like saying, 'That's not a good way to protect your stuff, because the FBI can go through it like eggshells,'" Bryan continues. Of course, this isn't really true: although the FBI has had some notable successes at identifying criminal suspects on the dark web with technological means, it is not the norm. It's worth remembering Carroll is not the only Justice Department or US law enforcement official to endorse Tor...one FBI agent was also an advocate of Tor.
"I almost felt like saying, 'That's not a good way to protect your stuff, because the FBI can go through it like eggshells,'" Bryan continues. Of course, this isn't really true: although the FBI has had some notable successes at identifying criminal suspects on the dark web with technological means, it is not the norm. It's worth remembering Carroll is not the only Justice Department or US law enforcement official to endorse Tor...one FBI agent was also an advocate of Tor.
for your honor's consideration
But consider the source!
Have gnu, will travel.
"Our helpful DoJ tech will install Tor on your laptop your honour."
The military should be using it too. I imagine a judge's personal computer habits are wonderful places to score data regarding blackmail material, pending judgements for buying and shorting stocks, etc.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
im 14 years ahead of this warning LOL
and the idiots at torrent freak swore it was safe.....i knew better and ill never tell how i found out..oh and i even once sold a mug inside the usa that had root code of the fbi webserver a year after they illegally attacked my server cause i did not want a war game and give me compensation for businesses i was looking after.
OH and all they cold do was the same knda DDoS that lolsec was famous for a tip that told me and my brothers and sisters to lay off and away from the anonymous movement...
regards,
one of the top hackers of this frakn planet,,,,oh and still have the image we made of that mug too...900+ got sold and shipped before it was ( not taken down) turned so 0 sec code could not be used....
reason i post this btw..i note all the govt shiill posts of late are real thick ....
p.s. paybacks are a bitch aren't they ....and yup the 15 year old hard drive stll works and can prove all i say....have a lovely day..
Support your local library !!!
http://www.lib-web.org/united-states/public-libraries/
http://cla.ca/
https://www.gov.uk/local-library-services
I promise that I won't sniff your traffic going to the sites you're visiting or strip your ssl links and substitute them with regular http or employ any other MITM attacks. So go on, Mr. Federal Judge, you can trust me to NOT intercept any of your sensitive data whatsoever. I promise.
I could understand recommending some sort of full disk encryption product to protect confidential information on their computers, but Tor was designed for something different: anonymous browsing. Why would judges need that as part of their professional duties?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Most business are hacked by hackers, not the government. They want to mitigate the risk they have, not a risk you made up to suite your own parnaioa. Until business see damages from Intelligence Agencies, it's not a point compared to hackers. Elon Musk is not protecting his networks primarily from the FBI. He is protecting it from prolific armies of Chinese hackers. China is not like the US, it's prioritizing science, technology and efficiency. To some degree their population forces those kinds of smarter solutions. The point is they have and will continue to have more coders. Asian has a lot of coders that we effectively need be American's are too lazy to get educations. Our high education rate is horrible.
What could be more convenient than to have them funnel all their work to the FBI through Tor?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
"The director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice urged a roomful of 100 federal judges to use Tor to protect their computers"
TOR will disguise the IP address of your computer. But there are a number of ways from compromised nodes to malicious dark sites that can be used to reveal your location, especially if you use the latest iteration of Microsoft Windows.
Posting ANON to keep from getting fired.
Yes they CAN get into the Judicial system as if it was right there because IT IS easily accessed by them. the US government's computer network system is all thin clients of PCoIP endpoints and a few servers at key points that deliver everything the judges use as well as all the rest of the court. "turning off the computer" does nothing at all as all of it is on the servers in the datacenter hundreds of miles away.
So the DOJ director needs to understand how his whole system is set up first before dispensing advice.
The FBI has notable successes sure, BUT you missed other bigger points. When Universities start looking into TOR, they find 100 automated attack nodes. Which Tor project weren't even looking for. It wasn't difficult even to find them, when Beta testers set up hidden sites they should have notice the automated attacks!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/researchers_dis.html
They find the directory servers are a weak spot, with Snowden revealing NSA hacking volunteers who provide directory servers, and finding it really easy to own authoritative directory servers and that servers in Rotterdam have been doing those exact same attacks:
http://thehackernews.com/2014/12/tor-network-hacked.html
They find the TOR exit nodes are mapped
https://hackertarget.com/tor-exit-node-visualization/
FFS, Shari Steele's recent hatchet job on Jacob Applebaum revealed a very 'special' attitude, you can see it in this official tweet:
"Statement from @torproject on @ioerror.: https://t.co/ngTmKR2yCu Our community (larger than Tor) failed badly here."
Suppose someone intimidated women using Tor. Would Tor protect free speech, that it deemed bad? Or would it undermine Tor for a larger community responsibility it views as larger than Tor?
Doesn't that "bigger responsibility" echo the exact thing that Blackberry exec did, when he decided it was Blackberries duty to ensure bad people didn't use its encrypted messaging? Isn't this is the marketing point used to undermine free speech currently you see echo'd everywhere?
They need to use TOR, because they're men and so watch porn! And of course the DOJ won't admit it, but it has access to those logs as part of its anti-terror duties.... remember it's not a search if they don't admit to looking. So they're not searching the Judges Internet logs, they're investigating hay stacks for possible needles.
Do the DOJ is warning the judges to use TOR because... well no reason... erm.... best if you use TOR judges.... but we can't say why.....
DEA has already admitted it routinely receives spook information, it routinely covers up the source of that information with a parallel fake set of evidence.
DEA was the lead agency against Silk Road. You claim 'IP' leaks, others have made vague 'informant' claims, but in reality none of that has been claimed or shown to a court. What was shown to the court was remarkably light on challengable information. Which is a strong indicator that it was a false Parallel Construction case:
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fbi-silk-road-hacking-question/
"As bureau agent Christopher Tarbell describes it, he and another agent discovered the Silk Road’s IP address in June of 2013. According to Tarbell’s somewhat cryptic account, the two agents entered “miscellaneous” data into its login page and found that its CAPTCHA—the garbled collection of letters and numbers used to filter out spam bots—was loading from an address not connected to any Tor “node,” the computers that bounce data through the anonymity software’s network to hide its source. Instead, they say that a software misconfiguration meant the CAPTCHA data was coming directly from a data center in Iceland, the true location of the server hosting the Silk Road."
"But that account of the discovery alone doesn’t add up, says Runa Sandvik, a privacy researcher who has closely followed the Silk Road and worked for the Tor project at the time of the FBI’s discovery. She says the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA was hosted on the same server as the rest of the Silk Road. And that would mean all of it was accessible only through Tor’s network of obfuscating bounced connections. "
i.e. the story told to the court was a lie.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-nsa-or-anyone-else-can-crack-tors-anonymity
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/167002/20160626/the-fbi-can-still-spy-on-you-even-if-youre-using-tor-and-dont-ask-why.htm
And it's worse since those articles have been written. The FBI now owns a ton of exit nodes. Even if they can't confirm the content, they absolutely know the meta data, including which two parties are communicating.
Use Tor for sure, but you have to lock it down. Do not use ANY TAILS 1.5 or newer.
You should also edit your torrc and add the following two lines before you ever connect.
StrictNodes 1
ExcludeNodes {us}
Other codes are here.
http://www.b3rn3d.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes/
Pass nothing through the US because they literally robbed the US public to spy on the US public. They think it somehow magically will increase the chances of success in their heists. As if the military and cops and home gun owners will not blast them to smithereens when the finally wake up and comprehend what useless lying cunts spies are. What is a spy? CIA. FBI. NSA. The rest? Consider them all Jewish lawyers. Load heavy.
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