Posted on 09/02/2013 2:05:27 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Wonder if the tormail user who was sending pedoporn to conservative pundits can be traced, and who it traces to?
Or, perhaps, they don't - and you end up arrested. There is no way to separate your activities from activities of Tor users that you facilitate. So if someone connects to port 22 of some server at Pentagon, the FBI has legal right to come after you.
Running a Tor exit node is just as smart as standing in the street and doing everything that some stranger tells you to do over a cell phone. Like "Find a nearest cracker and hit him in the mouth."
“An adversary that provides no more bandwidth than some volunteers do today can deanonymize any given user within three months of regular Tor use with over 50 percent probability and within six months with over 80 percent probability.
ENCRYPTION! ENCRYPTION! ENCRYPTION! THE NSA CANNOT HACK ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC (Yet)!
Go to StartSSL.com and get yourself a free Class 1 cert to start. Learn about encryption, and encrypt what you can: email, instant messaging. Get an SSL-sniffing add-on for your browser like HTTPS Finder for Firefox that ports you to an HTTPS address if it's available.
Until quantum computers are a reality, the NSA is not going to waste data processing cycles on your traffic unless you're a known, imminent threat. Even then, they won't decrypt everything in any meaningful amount of time.
Encrypt your traffic, buy your own domain and learn how to setup an email server on Ubuntu for yourself utilizing the keys available out there. Privacy is available if you make yourself knowledgeable.
And worst-case scenario, learn HAM radio!
Ping.
Code breaking is now so far in advance of encryption that it is hardly worth the effort to try anymore. The use of factoring no longer presents a serious obstacle, and with quantum computing it will just be brushed aside.
The best advice to keep privacy is not to use electronics.
LOL. I read part of that and understood not one word of it. The world is leaving me behind....WAHHHHHH.
The face belonging to hand delivery can be easily recognized due to billions of photos available online and the software capable of facial recognition.
Even worse, when hand delivery carries an Android device, their whereabouts are traceable. If they leave device at home and it is deviation from routine, it is easily flagged.
A software using social diagram can predict whereabouts of each social diagram member at any time.
One can be smart, but it's the sum of stupid contacts that counts.
Facial photo recognition has never been successful in application. They want it to be, they crave it to be, but it just never pans out.
And it’s not just an Android device, but all cellphones now have GPS location detection, but that is moot, because if you carry a cellphone, why are you hand delivering a written message to avoid electronic interception? The government even wants to integrate GPS into all automobiles, but has not yet pulled that one off.
And then, on your person there are probably several RFID tags, and when you pass near an RFID reader, you give off a unique signature for that vicinity with even a single tag. Who else in the area is wearing your brand of shoes, and your brand of pants, etc.?
But your last reference was to data mining. A brilliant idea used by both law enforcement and intelligence, it is still dependent on a lack of GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. Even if it established some contacts, it still has no clue as to message content.
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