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For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts (www.helpnetsecurity.com)

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Active police and government email accounts are being sold on the dark web for as little as $40, giving cybercriminals a direct line into systems and services that rely on institutional trust. According to new research from Abnormal AI, the accounts come from agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Brazil, and are being traded on underground forums. Source: Abnormal AI Unlike spoofed or dormant addresses, these accounts are functional and still … More → The post For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts appeared first on Help Net Security.

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[–] IllNess 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So your logic for using Tor is because you can hide a server behind one and people understand the risk. And the only thing that prevents the government from busting people from illegally accessing their own servers is effort.

Why would you suggest using anything that you yourself considers a risk?

But this post is about accessing government servers, which aren't onion servers. Creating servers is irrelevant in this discussion. I'd rather use a service that hasn't failed it's users, which hides IP addresses. When Mullvad got raided, the police couldn't do anything. It was a dead end for them. With Tor, that has been far from the case over and over again.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I get what you're saying, people have been arrested after using Tor when that's not true of Mullvad. My point is that the domains are just not the same. It's like saying "body armor isn't as good as just wearing a baseball hat" because a higher percentage of people get shot wearing body armor than while wearing a baseball hat.