Re: [tor-talk] fwd: FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge's Order to Reveal Tor Browser Exploit

[Rick Evans <tmovoice@xxxxxxxxx>]

That 800 number of users was years ago at a very very early beta stage,
which means that Tor has had attention drawn to it by some fairly
intelligent people for a very long time.  Just using it may give you .
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G1LjQSYM5Q>
 some extra attention.  The only "trick" that only works some of the time
is to stay legal except that area seems to also be somewhat malleable with
invisible edges.  You buys your ticket you takes your chances and your
mileage may vary.  We live in interesting times.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:55 AM, <tor_talk@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Rick and Tor Talkers,
>
> Rick wrote:
> > I kept getting pinged when running Tor right when ir was first in beta.
> My firewall was set not to respond to pings.  I could register > where they
> were coming from.  So I did a back trace and it led me to a machine at
> Harvard.edu. Ftped straight in and a few levels > up was the list of 800
> Tor users.
>
> who doesn't want to know who does that ding-dong ditch. the list of the
> 800 might result from a kind of login. as a harvard student you might be
> forced to login and in case you use Tor right after the university will
> know you are a Tor user. some universities offer to study from a distance
> so in case there are different (e-mail) addresses and not only those from
> harvard.
>
> a list of 800 Tor user is a bit short even when you consider that they
> exchange files and data with other universities and intels.
>
> and you have to consider the countries with an easy entry/exit of internet
>
> www.theverge.com/2016/5/17/11688978/iraq-internet-block-exam-cheating
> "Iraq shuts down internet to prevent students from cheating on exams"
>
> (that might be just kind of propaganda, but it's the idea what i mean)
>
>
>
>
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