German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network | TechSpot
German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network | TechSpot
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...
Local law enforcement manages what is theoretically possible but would require massive ressources... without given details about what would possibly be a public world-first achievement reserved for state actors definitely not talking about it.
Sure... sounds reasonable and is totally not an excuse to divert from other questionable investigation methods...
Yeah that was the take from most big outlets and tech experts / hackers. Shameful of the news companies to just further the cops blatant lies.
"This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack."
That's a critical piece of the puzzle, isn't it? LOL
So they must've disabled the auto update and ran an outdated version? Seems silly. Why even bother with TOR if you don't keep it up do date?
Tor has been compromised for years now. How is this news?