Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht was taken down as a result of Tor getting nuked. In months preceding there was an absurdly large influx of new nodes on the network. Tech publication speculated maybe an attack on Tor had occurred exploring theoretical ways to do it. During Ross Ulbricht's prosecution it was revealed that the FBI paid a university to develop a way to crack Tor. Womp womp. Was pretty significant controversy resulting from university involvement in cracking an encrypted system in partnership with the FBI. Apparently there's ethical lines involved there.
And then the internet and Tor went on as if nothing had happened.
It's just like all the times Facebook screwed over their users through three-card-monte with the Terms & Service to expose massive amounts of data to sharing that had previously been set specifically to private. After the bloodbath, the public herd continues grazing as if a predator hadn't just ripped some of them to shreds right on the prairie.
Ulbrght case was the end of the warrant canary, in case anyone paid attention to these things. Tor's been compromised since then.
Way back then when Ars Technica still produced insightful articles. Could read about tech implications around legal and political realms in a host of media outlets. They closed that window and turned the media outlets into eunuchs.
Crazy that they can nuke tor.
Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht was taken down as a result of Tor getting nuked. In months preceding there was an absurdly large influx of new nodes on the network. Tech publication speculated maybe an attack on Tor had occurred exploring theoretical ways to do it. During Ross Ulbricht's prosecution it was revealed that the FBI paid a university to develop a way to crack Tor. Womp womp. Was pretty significant controversy resulting from university involvement in cracking an encrypted system in partnership with the FBI. Apparently there's ethical lines involved there.
And then the internet and Tor went on as if nothing had happened.
It's just like all the times Facebook screwed over their users through three-card-monte with the Terms & Service to expose massive amounts of data to sharing that had previously been set specifically to private. After the bloodbath, the public herd continues grazing as if a predator hadn't just ripped some of them to shreds right on the prairie.
Ulbrght case was the end of the warrant canary, in case anyone paid attention to these things. Tor's been compromised since then.
Damn, I remember some of that. Crazy!
Way back then when Ars Technica still produced insightful articles. Could read about tech implications around legal and political realms in a host of media outlets. They closed that window and turned the media outlets into eunuchs.