Those using Tor are fooled big time

[Bleipriester]

As always when people try something to hide it just makes them more interesting. So there´s a tool called Tor that is about to obscure the user´s digital trail. The NSA is monitoring it, making a nonsense of that tool. In order to hide your "privacy" (That means: web pages with pirated software, porn, etc, if you´re just checking your e-mails and shop, you don´t use Tor)) you directly deliver it to your dear friends of the NSA who apparently create a huge collection. The US even co-financed the whole project.

BERLIN (AP) — German media reported Thursday that users and supporters of a popular online anonymity tool are among those automatically singled out for special attention by U.S. security services.
The report by public broadcasters WDR and NDR says the code from the National Security Agency's XKeyscore software reveals the NSA's interest in anyone who uses a program called Tor that can obscure a person's digital trail.
The code for the software, which was created to filter through vast amounts of data to find information of interest to U.S. intelligence, also monitors a handful of key computers that act as phone books for the Tor network, the report said.
One of those computers reportedly belongs to Sebastian Hahn, a German student and online privacy activist. The report came on the day German lawmakers began hearing expert testimony for a probe into the activities of foreign intelligence agencies in Germany. The inquiry was sparked by reports based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which showed that German citizens, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were targeted by U.S. intelligence.
Former U.S. intelligence official William Binney told the lawmakers that Thursday's report was plausible. Binney, who left the NSA in 2001 alleging surveillance overreach after the 9/11 terror attacks, said factors that put people into "zones of suspicion" include visiting certain websites regularly.
The report published by WDR and NDR was co-authored by three privacy activists linked to the developers of Tor. One of them, Jacob Appelbaum, was previously involved in the publication of reports based on Snowden documents.
The creation of Tor was partly funded by the U.S. government to help dissidents in authoritarian countries communicate freely. But law enforcement agencies around the world have claimed that it also makes the work of identifying online criminals harder.
Report: NSA targeted German privacy activist - Sci/Tech news

 

[XPostFacto]

I'm glad to hear that the NSA is monitoring all the PC sites I have vistied, researching my new PC build. I hope they are technically oriented. Otherwise, they are going to die of boredom. Oh, and let's not forget my visits to on line genealogy sites. My wife says doing genealogy is like watching grass grow.

 

[shart_attack]

As always when people try something to hide it just makes them more interesting. So there´s a tool called Tor that is about to obscure the user´s digital trail. The NSA is monitoring it, making a nonsense of that tool. In order to hide your "privacy" (That means: web pages with pirated software, porn, etc, if you´re just checking your e-mails and shop, you don´t use Tor)) you directly deliver it to your dear friends of the NSA who apparently create a huge collection. The US even co-financed the whole project.

I'm not the least bit surprised.

Can't remember where, but I read about a guy who was big into using Tor a year or so back to order all kinds of clandestine drugs: 'shrooms, mollies, roofies — you name it.

In the article, the guy was saying stuff like, "You can only use Tor like three times to buy this kind of stuff before The Fuzz find out."

Okay, SO WHY DO IT, THEN???

The guy went on to say in the article that he got pinched at an outdoor festival a few months later — per a really suspicious roadblock.

Is Tor safe? Does it truly mask your IP address from the Feds???

Nope.

Don't use it. Just don't do it.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

As always when people try something to hide it just makes them more interesting. So there´s a tool called Tor that is about to obscure the user´s digital trail. The NSA is monitoring it, making a nonsense of that tool. In order to hide your "privacy" (That means: web pages with pirated software, porn, etc, if you´re just checking your e-mails and shop, you don´t use Tor)) you directly deliver it to your dear friends of the NSA who apparently create a huge collection. The US even co-financed the whole project.

BERLIN (AP) — German media reported Thursday that users and supporters of a popular online anonymity tool are among those automatically singled out for special attention by U.S. security services.
The report by public broadcasters WDR and NDR says the code from the National Security Agency's XKeyscore software reveals the NSA's interest in anyone who uses a program called Tor that can obscure a person's digital trail.
The code for the software, which was created to filter through vast amounts of data to find information of interest to U.S. intelligence, also monitors a handful of key computers that act as phone books for the Tor network, the report said.
One of those computers reportedly belongs to Sebastian Hahn, a German student and online privacy activist. The report came on the day German lawmakers began hearing expert testimony for a probe into the activities of foreign intelligence agencies in Germany. The inquiry was sparked by reports based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which showed that German citizens, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were targeted by U.S. intelligence.
Former U.S. intelligence official William Binney told the lawmakers that Thursday's report was plausible. Binney, who left the NSA in 2001 alleging surveillance overreach after the 9/11 terror attacks, said factors that put people into "zones of suspicion" include visiting certain websites regularly.
The report published by WDR and NDR was co-authored by three privacy activists linked to the developers of Tor. One of them, Jacob Appelbaum, was previously involved in the publication of reports based on Snowden documents.
The creation of Tor was partly funded by the U.S. government to help dissidents in authoritarian countries communicate freely. But law enforcement agencies around the world have claimed that it also makes the work of identifying online criminals harder.
Report: NSA targeted German privacy activist - Sci/Tech news

yeah, and they all walk around wearing Guy Fawkes masks and shouting "remember the 5thof November" - as if that makes them invisible