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Re: The Dark Web

Postby pcslim » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:33 am

Silk Road Shut Down
Hiring a hit man? Why do something stupid like that?
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Re: Surveillance Nation

Postby cactuspete » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:21 am

FBI busts founder of online drug market silk road
Apparently he was defending himself from an extortionist which sort of makes sense, except he was sloppy about the way he went about hiring the hit man!
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby desertrat » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:19 am

The FBI Shuts Down Silk Road! - Threat Wire
I think that the commentators who present this video might be high, but it's still interesting despite their horrible delivery!!!
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Reasonably good discussion of TOR and the EFF also included in this news clip.
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby desertrat » Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:26 am

The FBI Shuts Down Silk Road! - Threat Wire
The commentators seem like they're high, but this is still interesting!
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Also mentioned: TOR and EFF!!!
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby pcslim » Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:34 am

A look at rebuilt drug bazaar Silk Road
Just four weeks and it's back, but it's being run by different people. Hopefully this isn't a sting operation!
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby desertrat » Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:12 am

Yes, Federal Agents Can Identify Anonymous Tor Users, Because Most People Don't Know How To Be Anonymous
Here's some useful information for you TOR users out there! Here's a quote from a Wall Street Journal article regarding online anonymity and Tor:
"There's not a magic way to trace people [through Tor], so we typically capitalize on human error, looking for whatever clues people leave in their wake," said James Kilpatrick, one of the HSI agents who is part of Operation Round Table, a continuing investigation into a Tor-based child-pornography site that has so far resulted in 25 arrests and the identification of more than 250 victims, all children.

(NOTE: There were not 250 victims, there were only 27. Typical law enforcement tactic to gain support: Exaggerate. Exaggerate. Exaggerate.)

And now for a few interesting comments in response to the TechDirt article:
250 kids having a bad childhood. If thats the price of internet freedom, then i dont care about those kids.

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You want answers? You want the truth?

So the question is, how many children have to be exploited

27. But its the same one's over and over.

Say, how's that Franklin Scandal investigation going?

how many terrorist attacks have to happen before we get around to the sooner or later?

3. Unless the "terrorists" are blowers of whistles

Now that you know 27 and a conditional 3 as answers you can move on.
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In this case, it really doesn't. Tor has been designed and implemented in a completely open process. They've dedicated an amazing amount of work to circumventing attempts to block Tor traffic — remember when Iran decided to shut down Tor communication, and it was back up the next day with the new traffic-obfuscation system?
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You obviously don't care about protecting the children. Prisoners might escape from their cells, break into the other prisoners' cells, and harm them. Clearly the only solution-- the final one, if you will-- is to execute everyone. You can neither commit, nor be a victim of, a crime if you're dead.


The protect the children argument against anonymity is STUPID. You cannot keep everyone safe all the time and the cost of attempting to do so is that we lose our basic freedoms. As a dead patriot once said: Those who would trade freedom for safety deserve neither!
LINK: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140401/17422126773/yes-federal-agents-can-identify-anonymous-tor-users-because-most-people-dont-know-how-to-be-anonymous.shtml
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby pcslim » Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:58 pm

Apple reveals new operating system it claims is police-proof
Looks like Apple is doing something to protect us from the "real" criminals!
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“Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your pass code and therefore cannot access this data,” Apple said on its website. “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

Of course, there is a downside to this:
However, although Apple users will be happy to know their information is better protected than ever, forgetting a password could prove to be an even greater nightmare than any government intrusion of privacy. According to Apple officials, users who forget their pass codes with the new iOS 8 operating system will not be able to recover them by contacting the company.

LINK: http://rt.com/usa/188760-apple-nsa-police-spying/
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby alf » Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:01 pm

Documents Released In Silk Road Case Add More Evidence To The 'Parallel Construction' Theory
The FBI's explanation about how it gained access to the Silk Road server doesn't hold water. Included is an 18-page court document written by a computer expert explaining why the FBI's explanation isn't plausible.
11. The server images provided in discovery establish that the Silk Road was run on the Ubuntu Server operating system, version 12.04.2. Ubuntu is a widely distributed and freely available Linux-based open-source operating system. The server utilized Nginx to serve its web content, a popular, high-performance web server capable of handling high volumes of traffic. The role of the web server is to deliver web content to the client, i.e., the individual visiting the site.

12. Nginx has the capability to serve more than one website from the same physical hardware server. In order to do so, the server must affirmatively be configured for that purpose. This type of configuration is called virtual hosting. There are two file folders containing virtual host configuration files, “sites-available” and “sites-enabled.”

14. In July 2013, the Silk Road site was split between two different servers, a front-end and back-end server. The front-end is what the user sees and interacts with, while the back-end is where the “under the hood” operations take place, such as fetching data and entering new data in a database.

17. Based on the server configuration files provided by the government, access to market data from a non-Tor IP address would have been precluded.

There's more, but basically the FBI's own evidence proves that it's evidence is fake because what they claim contradicts the way the servers were configured.
LINK: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/09352528729/documents-released-silk-road-case-add-more-evidence-to-parallel-construction-theory.shtml
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby cactuspete » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:12 am

Parallel Construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how the investigation began. That's from WikiPedia and so in other words the FBI got it's initial evidence illegally and then they put together a false explanation as to how they acquired the evidence they need. Looks like they've been caught redhanded this time. Of course, the guy will probably still be charged with other crimes, but even at that the FBI probably won't be able to make their charges stick although they may offer some kind of plea deal to save face.
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Re: The Dark Web

Postby pcslim » Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:39 am

cactuspete/alf: The FBI has already embarrassed itself at this point, but they'll still try to get at least some kind of conviction. They need to be able to score a win even if it winds up being a petty crime of some kind. So, a plea bargain deal is likely. Look for a sentence of six months and a fine of about k. That's way less than the guy would spend fighting in court and so it'll be a deal worth taking since the guy is almost certainly guilty of breaking some law and probably can't afford to spend seven to ten years fighting an ongoing court battle.
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