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Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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It’s worth noting that a sizeable number of Tor exit nodes are actually run by the German government. Meaning: they know exactly what’s going through those nodes.
So all they need to do to unmask a Tor source IP is control the first hop too. They’re in a position where they can narrow searches down to activity they’re actually interested in without significantly decreasing the privacy of other Tor users, and then they can peel back the onion.
This has been the case since shortly after Tor was created.