Tor users could be FBI's main target if legal power grab succeeds

  • 22 September 2014
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by Lisa Vaas on September 22, 2014
 
 http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/anonymizing_tor_170_ss-112725544.jpg?w=640The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing a power grab that would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to break into computers of people trying to protect their anonymity via Tor or other anonymizing technologies.
That's according to a law professor and litigator who deals with constitutional issues that arise in espionage, cybersecurity and counterterrorism prosecutions.
Ahmed Ghappour, a visiting professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, explained the potential ramifications of the legal maneuver in a post published last week.
Concerns center around a DOJ proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure - the part that describes the authority necessary to issue a warrant in search and seizure - to lawfully achieve two law enforcement activities:
 
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I'll say this again at one point in time Tor was on top as one of the most security app for masking ones identity however I never completely trusted it as the data could be compromised by one the servers it was being transfer ed to and from. Now Tor is being exploited.

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