From what I know about darkweb drug dealers, the US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself. But I’m not a specialist.
Writing analysis is a bigger threat, especially since the technology to deanonymize writing by cross-referencing it is advancing.
US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself.
The policy of the US government is to reconstruct a plausible narrative of how they caught the offender if they use exploits like this so that they can continue to use them in future.
If you look at the number of dark markets that have used Tor and been shutdown by the feds, I don’t think it’s implausible that Tor is already compromised.
From what I know about darkweb drug dealers, the US government has never taken down an illicit drug rung by breaking Tor itself. But I’m not a specialist.
Writing analysis is a bigger threat, especially since the technology to deanonymize writing by cross-referencing it is advancing.
The policy of the US government is to reconstruct a plausible narrative of how they caught the offender if they use exploits like this so that they can continue to use them in future.
If you look at the number of dark markets that have used Tor and been shutdown by the feds, I don’t think it’s implausible that Tor is already compromised.
More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2OZKitRwc&t=0s