Federal Agents Pierce Tor Web-Anonymity Toolonline.wsj.com 12 pointsdailyrorschach12 years ago3 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−dm212yDo spies and other secret agents use Tor?I've always assumed it was developed mainly for them to use, because a US government VPN would be too obvious.If Tor wasn't public then a could just say, look, there's a US spy at this IP because they're the only person using onion routing.These are it's weaknesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknes...Also I think Harvard caught a student who reported a bomb threat over Tor, but was caught because there was only one student using Tor on the Harvard network at the time, oops.http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...−Zigurd12yThat's a terrible article. The only concrete example? A postal inspector found some dubious physical mail that led to a suspect.−VikingCoder12y...and the guy who accidentally logged in to Facebook without Tor, once.
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Do spies and other secret agents use Tor?
I've always assumed it was developed mainly for them to use, because a US government VPN would be too obvious.
If Tor wasn't public then a could just say, look, there's a US spy at this IP because they're the only person using onion routing.
These are it's weaknesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknes...
Also I think Harvard caught a student who reported a bomb threat over Tor, but was caught because there was only one student using Tor on the Harvard network at the time, oops.
http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...
That's a terrible article. The only concrete example? A postal inspector found some dubious physical mail that led to a suspect.
...and the guy who accidentally logged in to Facebook without Tor, once.