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Motherboard originally reported that the bureau has somehow managed to nab the IP address of an alleged criminal using Tor, short for "The Onion Router," as part of an ongoing anti-terrorism case. The guy in question, Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, of Tampa, Florida, was charged in 2020 with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. According to the government, Al-Azhari is "an ISIS supporter who planned and attempted to carry out an attack on behalf of that terrorist organization." Part of the government's case against Al-Azhari revolves around his use of Tor to make multiple visits to an ISIS-related website prior to the planned attack. ...
It's not exactly clear what happened here. Somehow, the government ascertained Al-Azhari's real IP address—which actually turned out to be his grandma's IP address because he was staying with her in Riverside, California at the time of his arrest, court documents state. Since Tor should have protected Azhari's real location and IP address, the question remains: how did the feds get this information?
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Is use of TOR probable cause for other investigative techniques that would ordinarily violate civil liberties? (ask a warrant issuing judge.) It it any different from wearing a ski mask to the bank teller window?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 16 2023, @04:38AM
>it's the only option if you really want TOR to be useful.
Well, in the theoretical world, you wouldn't be using TOR to access Facebook or other mainstream sites anyway - so the "Dark Web" that caters to TOR users should be setup to work with the TOR browser.
Ever browse in Lynx? It's useful, on sites that accommodate its limitations, which used to be all sites back around 1994.
>mostly, there's a very good chance that the US TLAs run more than half the TOR nodes in the world.
So very much this ^^^, and why would people think that's not the case?
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