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The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:19AM   
from the equal-opportunity-dark-net dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Tor Project, which created the Tor browser and administers it to this day, says it isn't surprised or takes issue with the CIA using its software.

"We believe onion services are a key next step in securing the web, similar to the standardization of https as more secure configuration than http, so it[sic] that sense, it is not a surprise that the CIA would want to take advantage of the privacy and security protections that onion services provide," said Stephanie Whited the communications director for the Tor Project in an email to Motherboard. "Tor software is free and open source, and so anyone can use it, including the CIA."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnyew/the-cia-will-use-its-new-dark-web-site-to-collect-anonymous-tips

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• Re:No more SWATting (Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:56AM

  by Arik (4543) on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:56AM (#840601) Journal

  Sad but true.
  
  The FBI classified antiwar.com as a dangerous site and spent who knows how much money keeping them under surveillance for 6 years (if not more) because their webmaster forwarded a terrorist threat made against his website to them, and they classified it (apparently without reading it) as a terrorist threat FROM the website and AGAINST the FBI.
  
  I wish I was making this up.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/fbi-monitored-anti-war-website-in-error-documents

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