[tor-talk] Hammond, Tor

[Griffin Boyce]

Il 04.01.2014 13:32 Bobby Brewster ha scritto:
> See
> http://freejeremy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jeremy-hammond-federal-complaint.pdf
> 
> The search function doesn't work but look at the detail on Pages 30-33.
> 
> The point is that Hammond's IP was accessing Tor at the same time as
> he was in his residence and / or in contact with CW-1 (Monsegur I
> assume).

   I was at his sentencing, and can tell you a couple of things about the 
case.  As it says in the complaint, authorities relied on an informant 
to say when Jeremy Hammond went offline.  At no point did they say that 
his location was leaked.  They went to pretty great lengths to force him 
offline to confirm that he was "Anarchaos" -- but because the link was 
initially so tenuous, even setting up an IRC bounce would have thwarted 
those correlation efforts.

   If the feds are watching a chatroom and you don't have a persistent 
connection, they can track when you enter and exit, even if they don't 
know where you're physically located.  If you're in contact with an 
informant, they're giving all of your chats and personal details to 
their keepers.  Those two things together can be used to target for 
surveillance (legally, with a warrant).

   It's an awful situation, but has nothing to do with Tor.  In fact, 
he's restricted from using Tor explicitly for the next 13 years because 
they couldn't track his location.

~Griffin