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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.
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.
REMEMBER THE MURDER OF IAN MURDOCH, creator of Debian Linux and leading member of the Free Software community, killed Christmas 2015 by the notoriously corrupt San Francisco police department.