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RonPaulFanInGA
04-01-2014, 02:31 PM
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579461641349857358


Child-Pornography Investigation Gets Around Browser Designed to Mask Identities

WASHINGTON—Law-enforcement agencies are increasingly finding ways to unmask users of a popular Web browser designed to hide identities and allow individuals to exist online anonymously.

To keep their identities secret, users and administrators of a recently shuttered child-pornography website used a browser called Tor that obscures the source of Web traffic, authorities said in March. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations tracked many of them down anyway, largely because of mistakes that even some of the most sophisticated users eventually make.

But officials are becoming more confident that Tor's shield of anonymity isn't impenetrable.

"Two years ago…if they ran into Tor, they said, 'It's hopeless,' " said Andrew Lewman, executive director of the nonprofit group that oversees Tor, called Tor Project. But after meetings with agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security, he noticed their perception started changing. "They finally realized Tor's not this impenetrable thing. Users make mistakes."

Vanguard101
04-01-2014, 03:10 PM
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