alt Hacker News>We have seen multiple cases of people getting caught on there
as far as i am aware, no one has been caught due to something technical in relation to tor.
it's always something dumb like logging into an email that has the person's real name in it, using a credit card, leaving javascript on, or otherwise making some opsec failure.
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zahlman • today at 5:18 PM
It's increasingly difficult to accomplish much on the Internet without JavaScript, though. This is an era where literal image hosting sites won't show you an image without it; where it's used to reinvent <details> tags, forms, even ordinary hyperlinks.
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pseudalopex • today at 5:11 PM
This could be true. But law enforcers lied how they found evidence in other cases.[1] They could have lied in Tor cases.
There is another angle not a lot of people consider. There was a Defcon video I recall watching from 10-15 years ago where the speaker referenced a case where police managed to arrest someone because the Tor traffic on the network (maybe a university) was so unusual as a one time event at a specific location, the police managed to tie the individual to specific Tor activity. The speaker's conclusion was essentially we should all be using Tor to create and normalise a higher volume of Tor traffic which can in turn help protect other Tor user's anonymity.