TOR users become FBI's No.1 hacking target after legal power grab

  • 19 September 2014
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Be afeared, me hearties, these scoundrels be spying our signals

By John Leyden, 19 Sep 2014  The FBI wants greater authority to hack overseas computers, according to a law professor.
A Department of Justice proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to hack into the computers of people attempting to protect their anonymity on the internet.
 The change in search and seizure rules would mean the FBI could seize targets whose location is "concealed through technological means", as per the draft rule (key extract below). Concealed through technological means is legal speak for hosted somewhere on the darknet, using Tor or proxies or making use of VPN technology.
 
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When Tor first emerged on the net I had used it, however I became very apprehensive as how tor worked and how data was transmitted from module to module server just didn't like the way it was done. Your data could have been exposed at anyone of the exchange points.

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