I'm not entirely sure if this is the right board for this. If this was a bad board choice please tell me where I should have put this. I am a bit of a normiefag fresh out of Reddit. Do you suppose the dark web is still a viable tool or do you suppose i

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▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:02:31 No.1016425>>1016574 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right board for this. If this was a bad board choice please tell me where I should have put this. I am a bit of a normiefag fresh out of Reddit.

Do you suppose the dark web is still a viable tool or do you suppose it is little more than an FBI monitored front to bust and arrest anyone attempting to access illicit materials ever since the demise of the Silk Road?

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:09:44 No.1016427>>1016429 >>1016547

It's probably run in part by the NSA but if it is they're only passively monitoring everything and it's unknown whether or not they have access to the plaintext, the FBI doesn't have access to it or just won't actively use it in court against druggies or pedos to avoid disclosing that capability. Or maybe it's mainly run by benevolent project volunteers, who knows. I just doubt where the motivation to run nodes is coming from, since I don't think the Tor project itself spends donation money on actually running the nodes.

But even if the majority of the nodes are owned by (((them))), I think as long as you go through at least one non malicious node, then there is at least some degree of anonymization, since you're mingling with the other traffic that goes through that node. Not sure about it though, maybe there is a way to deanonymize everything just owning a large part of the network.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:13:56 No.1016429>>1016433 >>1016574

OP here. Full disclosure, I personally have no bushiness with the dark web, I just have always thought it to be a trap yet I have acquaintances with the most convincing fake IDs you will ever see.

>>1016427

I agree that TOR probably cannot run all the nodes and that is exactly why I suspect foul play. We all know the feds have infiltrated organizations such as the KKK so this seems right up their alley. I don't think its a good thing or a bad thing necessarily. I just think its an interesting topic to look into.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:18:11 No.1016433>>1016435

>>1016429

>Full disclosure, I personally have no bushiness with the dark web

You say that like it meant something.

Are you fucking trolling? This is an anonymous site, and it won't get you out of a watchlist either, so fuck off with that "I'm just curious" bullshit.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:23:32 No.1016435>>1016436

>>1016433

Yeah. When I say that I mean it. I have no real desire for drugs, I can get a gun legally as I ain't a felon, and I don't want the fucked up porn or credit card scams. I have no reason to care. I am dead ass here for curiosity.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:24:17 No.1016436>>1016439

>>1016435

Nobody cares, retard.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 02:27:10 No.1016439

>>1016436

I am here to ask a question not cause a shitshow. Sorry you are so easily offended, retard.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 10:52:30 No.1016547>>1016628

>>1016427

>I just doubt where the motivation to run nodes is coming from

same reason some people seed torrents a lot - supporting the network and people using it.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 10:56:57 No.1016548

>I am a bit of a normiefag fresh out of Reddit.

LOL

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 11:13:48 No.1016550

\thread

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 13:51:21 No.1016574

>>1016425 (OP)

Why would you ask here? Evidently from >>1016429, you already have friends on the dark web. Can't you get an answer from them? Isn't their existence already greater proof than whatever an anon on 8chan can tell you?

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 14:12:15 No.1016575

Some nodes are run by NSA. But they only catch terrorists not pedophiles or drug dealers.

And FBI doesn't run any nodes.

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 16:21:56 No.1016596>>1016712

NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

October 05, 2013

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden - titled ‘Tor Stinks’ in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser.

The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor users and monitoring their traffic, especially since Tor servers are all over the world, but they make tracking easier by adopting the following techniques:

1. By running their own hostile Tor nodes 2. Using zero-day vulnerability of Firefox browser 3. By tracking user' browser Cookies

Tor access node tracking is not new and the Document says that both the NSA and GCHQ run Tor nodes themselves. In order to trace traffic back to a particular Tor user the NSA needs to know the ‘entry, relay and exit’ nodes in the anonymizer cloud between the user and the destination website.

https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/nsa-using-browser-cookies-to-track-tor.html

▶Anonymous 01/05/19 (Sat) 19:45:01 No.1016628>>1016805

>>1016547

By seeding s torrent you might at most receive an angry letter from your ISP depending where you are in the world. And it's easy, just leave your torrent client running after you finish dowbloadong.

Running an exit node WILL get you visits from the police, and running a normal node is more cumbersome than seeding.

▶Anonymous 01/06/19 (Sun) 01:23:59 No.1016712

>>1016596

Damn Snowden was a legend

▶Anonymous 01/06/19 (Sun) 08:58:53 No.1016805

>>1016628

>Running an exit node WILL get you visits from the police

proof?

>running a normal node is more cumbersome than seeding

not really.

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