Posted on 08/21/2015 2:09:19 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Comcast Cable Communications has given a northern Illinois politician the identity of an Internet service subscriber whose account was used to post an anonymous comment online suggesting the politician molests children.
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Use tor...it will help a little bit.
Is Tor safe? Do you have any tips for getting started?
Well, considering the NSA was actually running some of the nodes for TOR, so they could snoop on the traffic, I wouldn’t exactly call it safe.
If someone wants to spend the time and resources to link an online handle with a real identity, it will happen. It just depends on how bad they want you.
Okay thanks. What exactly would you be able to see with TOR? Is that like Deep Web stuff?
I use ExpressVPN. You can connect through a large number of countries.
Got no qualms about giving up anyone and everyone that makes that serious of a charge.
I guess I see nothing wrong with this. The internet should not be a shield for protecting libel and communicating threats.
“Will this ruling affect FR?”
Maybe, be we will still have a wide berth here...but if we say something DIRECTLY implying that a guy is a felon, we should have something to back it up.
I've seen some reckless comments on FR that make me wince. It's like playing Russian roulette with your good name and family's fortunes.
Well, TOR is a browser, you can use it to browse the “world wide web” section of the internet, just like any other browser, but your traffic is encrypted and passed through a private network to “anonymize” it. You can also access the “dark web” with it, or at least part of it. Those are websites that aren’t accessible through regular browsers, or indexed by search engines.
The thing with the NSA was, TOR tries to protect privacy by passing all the traffic along a kind of peer-to-peer network, so by the time it gets to some destination outside of that network, it’s impossible to trace back to the original IP. The NSA compromised that by getting their own servers inserted to pass that traffic along the TOR network, so they could snoop on the traffic from inside the network itself, before it had been bounced around the world 5,000 times.
Wow you sound very knowledgeable. The dark web sounds like a place that I should stay away from. Girls might get into trouble there. Thanks.
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