FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers
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FBI Controlled Freedom Hosting Tor Servers
The FBI has admitted to taking control of Freedom Hosting servers on the anonymity network Tor right before researchers uncovered an interesting piece of malware specially designed to identify users.
Freedom Hosting was a provider of turnkey “Tor hidden service” sites - special sites, with addresses ending in .onion, that hide their geographic location behind layers of routing, and can be reached only over the Tor anonymity network.
Click on the link below to read more:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/
The FBI has admitted to taking control of Freedom Hosting servers on the anonymity network Tor right before researchers uncovered an interesting piece of malware specially designed to identify users.
Freedom Hosting was a provider of turnkey “Tor hidden service” sites - special sites, with addresses ending in .onion, that hide their geographic location behind layers of routing, and can be reached only over the Tor anonymity network.
Click on the link below to read more:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/
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