Technology

60073 readers

3595 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

517

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

200 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It describes a North Carolina server hosting a Tor hidden service site. The setup was seized in February 2015

A North Carolinian server. I think that's in America, right?

to monitor its nearly 215,000 users.

How many were actually busted? Isn't that just the amount of traffic? Busting 215 000 pedophiles would've definitely made the news...

Currently, at least three men—Peter Ferrell, Alex Schreiber, and James Paroline—have been charged in connection with this site.

Three Americans? Good job, feds, but that doesn't exactly disprove my point about the feds' limited (if sizable) reach.

she said the FBI may have used a honeypot technique that feeds site visitors a link to a webpage outside of To

So to people who open non-tor links from tor are vulnerable? That's not exactly news.

Tor isn't a magical shield that makes everything cop-proof, but feds definitely don't have power over it the way you seem to imply they do.