But one top-secret presentation, titled “ Tor Stinks,” stated: “We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.” And Comey could simply have been referring to the kind of specifically targeted attacks that have been known to be successful in the past.įor instance, a 2013 story based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden described how the National Security Agency had developed attacks against people using Tor, by identifying Tor users and then attacking vulnerable software on their computers.
government’s known abilities, as well as a significant blow to privacy advocates.īut online security experts consulted by The Intercept cast doubt on that possibility.
If that’s Comey’s intended implication, and if it’s true, it would would represent an enormous expansion of the U.S. law enforcement has found a way to routinely thwart Tor’s system for providing anonymity to users. ”Ĭomey’s statement could be read as an assertion that U.S. They’re kidding themselves, because of the effort that’s been put in by all of us in the government over the last five years or so, that they are out of our view. They think that if they go to the dark web … that they can hide from us. Speaking in particular of people who view child pornography, Comey said: “They’ll use the onion router to hide their communications. His answer referenced Tor, which was originally known as “the onion router.” FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday that criminals who think they can evade law enforcement using the “dark web” and the Tor Network, which is designed to conceal the Internet addresses of the computers being used, are “kidding themselves.”Ĭomey was asked about criminal use of the so-called dark web - parts of the Internet walled off from ready access - at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on cybersecurity on Thursday.
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