On 12/18/2013 11:18 PM, Jim wrote:
spaceman wrote:
From what I got they simply used timings:
1. They knew when the email arrived give or take (from headers).
2. They knew who connected to Tor at that particular time (from
network logs).
Even on college campus there might be a couple of Tor users. I would
have used SSH to get to a 'unmonitored network', Tor and then mixmaster.
But the email could have come from anywhere. It didn't have to
originate on the campus. Then a timing correlation could link to
somebody who was merely unfortunate enough to be accessing Tor at
approximately the same time as somebody who was doing something
nefarious. I have certainly had the misfortune of being in the wrong
place at the wrong time and this is just a cyberspace equivalent of that.
Jim
Police are trained in how to manipulate suspects into confessing. And
most people have no clue how to deal with that. It's not so bad for the
innocent. They can just be natural. But, for the guilty, it's much^N
harder. It takes skill to convincingly feign innocence.
As Ted Smith noted: "The moral of the story is, never talk to police
other than to say you want a lawyer." That's the appropriate answer
whether you're innocent or guilty.