On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:37:13 -0500 Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/07/2017 06:27 PM, John Newman wrote: > > >>> Not sure about those two. Another explanation could be this : > >>> > >>> there wasn't any malware served, and the users of the site > >>> were identified using plain old traffic analysis. That's > >>> certainly something that both the government AND the tor mafia > >>> would like to sweep under the rug. > >>> > >>> > > > >> I think that might be very likely. How many times has the tor > >> project publicly acknowledged attacks involving ephemeral setup > >> of large number of tor nodes for purpose of attack? > > > >> Would NSA even need to own any nodes considering how many > >> different places they have taps into the internet? I don't think > >> so. > > Sounds reasonable if NSA was involved: But this show was billed as an > FBI production, and I don't think the NSA ventures into law > enforcement territory. well, this isn't exactly news... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intelligence-laundering or was your remark sarcastic? =P > The narrative presented by the FBI, including > the use of an exploit against Firefox + Microsoft sounded plausible to > me at the time. > > :o) > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYv5iJAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq1lcIALirvX7yZ10VI8sbQNyjrPLI > hcXa4kiQF4yvzGZMLYaXGCVHU8VJ2J0qE0YBr/vG5K0Z1LjiwMuPxNUgg3worx9n > NXRMWO5LaF/4F5b6nQPuqlt/fpizKMpr3WTuhLTz2FkR+rMonlCVFm3QdsQ9dvwJ > haZ/UwetKzJNxJfFDQNCKobtknZyfs05hUvcdWMLefiZeOXD9duNmk8PUNBwJy4I > +Y+467G9BKDrs5AUQVe4rKBWoG4xI8ewB7Ks1oHjWueAhZ9vGyaTWx7dvRl/iOqK > RU7UplXG8H72BwFQDABbxPRpgli+zc4NKAH1WlOk00rKXWzfDKZ4gSCuJ7uC/Do= > =B6WC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----