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Re: [tor-talk] Hammond, Tor



Il 04.01.2014 13:32 Bobby Brewster ha scritto:
See
http://freejeremy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jeremy-hammond-federal-complaint.pdf

The search function doesn't work but look at the detail on Pages 30-33.

The point is that Hammond's IP was accessing Tor at the same time as
he was in his residence and / or in contact with CW-1 (Monsegur I
assume).

I was at his sentencing, and can tell you a couple of things about the case. As it says in the complaint, authorities relied on an informant to say when Jeremy Hammond went offline. At no point did they say that his location was leaked. They went to pretty great lengths to force him offline to confirm that he was "Anarchaos" -- but because the link was initially so tenuous, even setting up an IRC bounce would have thwarted those correlation efforts.

If the feds are watching a chatroom and you don't have a persistent connection, they can track when you enter and exit, even if they don't know where you're physically located. If you're in contact with an informant, they're giving all of your chats and personal details to their keepers. Those two things together can be used to target for surveillance (legally, with a warrant).

It's an awful situation, but has nothing to do with Tor. In fact, he's restricted from using Tor explicitly for the next 13 years because they couldn't track his location.

~Griffin
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