How did 16 agencies worldwide not notice this?
Paging agent Tarbell!
I'm a lurker on Reddit; this is the first time I've ever made an account. I've done it to clear up some legal misconceptions about Operation Onymous and the recent revelation that up to 81% of Tor connections can be de-anonymized by traffic correlation.
I'm a criminal defense attorney who has a passion for technology. Redditors and Tor users are understandably wary about the recent blows to Tor's reputation as an anonymous network, but I'm here to say that you should stop quaking in your boots.
Let me start with a fact: everyone who has been arrested in conjunction with Tor has been brought down due to simple human error. The original owner of Silk Road was discovered because of certain clearnet posts he made under a traceable pseudonym. Silk Road 2 was brought down because LEO had agents on staff since Day One. None of this was due to a compromised Tor protocol.
I know what you're thinking: what about parallel construction? Well, what about it? The reality is, conventional law enforcement techniques are far more effective at targeting criminals than dragnet traffic correlation attacks. Not only are they more effective, but they are more likely to hold up in court. 81% accuracy under ideal conditions? I guarantee that I can get you off the hook with that level of inaccuracy.
The theoretical capability of law enforcement will always be limited by the practical capability of law enforcement. Theoretically, they could have drones monitoring every street corner for drug transactions... but they don't. Because it's too time consuming, too expensive, and doesn't offer much over the same-old-same-old policing tactics.
It's hard to explain how much manpower and expense goes into bringing cybercrime into the court system. It's not as simple as clicking a few buttons. They have to make everything count. That's why the ultimate intent is to scare criminals away from using Tor. It's better to scare off 100 criminals rather than to spend substantial time and resources to catch only 1.
Unless you are running a drug marketplace, are a child porn kingpin, or are the next Edward Snowden, you don't have much to worry about. Seriously.
Operation Onymous: Darknet Related Bust In Ireland
Posted by: DeepDotWeb November 6, 2014 in Featured, News Updates Leave a comment
Its is not yet clear who is the vendor that was arrested but it was just published in irte.ie that the GardaΓ (the police force of Ireland) raided an internet drug distribution center in Dublin βusing the encrypted network Darknetβ (Tor network?) and seized almost β¬200,000 worth of cannabis, ecstasy and LSD.
Quoting the article:
Two men in their 30s have been arrested and are being questioned at Kevin Street and Kilmainham Garda Stations.
GardaΓ say one of them is suspected to be a key figure in the distribution of drugs worldwide from Ireland.
The arrests are part of a worldwide investigation involving the Garda, European Police Forces, Interpol and the FBI.
Searches are continuing today in two other locations in Dublin.
GardaΓ say it is the first time a suspect has been identified and drugs seized despite the use of encryption protection.
Operation Charge is an investigation into criminality on the internet, focusing on Darknet, an encrypted private peer to peer network, where users believe they can communicate with little fear of government or other interference or monitoring.
Officers from the Garda National Drug Unit, the Computer Crime investigation Unit, and the Criminal Assets Bureau raided a rented unit in a business park in south Dublin yesterday.
They discovered an encrypted computer connected to the Silk Road site, which has been used as an online marketplace for drugs.
They also discovered over β¬180,000 worth of cannabis, ecstasy and LSD, which they believe was being sold in the US, Canada, Europe and Ireland.
A number of computers and documentation related to offshore accounts has also been seized.
A follow-up search in Harolds Cross in Dublin resulted in the seizure of controlled drugs and documents relating to off-shore bank accounts in Switzerland, Belize, Poland and a number of other countries.
One of the men in custody was identified and targeted by the Garda National Drugs Unit.
GardaΓ say it is the first time a suspect has been identified and drugs seized despite the use of encryption protection.
(source: http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1106/657346-drugs/)
Not only this, but another site quoted a statement release by GardaΓ mentioning that this bust was just a part of an ongoing operation called βOnymousβ, involving the FBI/Europol and shoul
... keep reading on reddit β‘SR2.0, Hydra and C9 confirmed seized
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous
https://crypto.stanford.edu/seclab/sem-14-15/pustogarov.html
Further proof that working under the assumption that XST is anonymous and safe is foolish.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
But thatβs comparing apples to oranges
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
BamBOO!
Theyβre on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
