German news outlet Tagesschau reports that local law enforcement agencies have successfully targeted, tracked, and arrested four suspects in a single investigation. The outlaws used Tor to...

German news outlet Tagesschau reports that local law enforcement agencies have successfully targeted, tracked, and arrested four suspects in a single investigation. The outlaws used Tor to hide their identities and activities in managing a ransomware operation and hosting child sex abuse material (CSAM) on their servers.

  • 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Tor itself was not breached. Rather, the suspects were using an outdated, long-retired app that did not employ some of the protections that are now available, and this, in turn, allowed investigators to carry out the attack.

  • Blaubarschmann@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    That’s what they want you to think, that they cracked TOR anonymization, to make criminals feel less safe and move to other platforms

    • BrikoXOPMEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      The majority of it’s funding is from various US entities. Even the whole concept was born from US military. But that really doesn’t mean anything these days. As an open source project, you take money from whoever wants to give it to you. It’s not like users who spend hundreds of dollars on proprietary software per month will give you any.

      • solsangraalEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        the whole concept was born from US military

        same as the internet

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          And it was created without encryption be default (which was discussed at the time).

          The argument was hardware couldn’t handle the load of encryption at the time. Hahahaha, riiiight.