This is how you know it’s a honeypot now
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Wouldnt someone need to be hosting a ton of exit nodes for that to work?
Yeah, and the FBI has been doing that for at least 7 years now, to catch some pretty disgusting criminals: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/fbi-running-darknet-child-port-sites-tor-malware/
If they are willing to do it to catch bad guys, who's stopping them from doing it to monitor good guys as well?
And that someone is called "The ~~Seven~~ Five Eyes".
Five Eyes Burgers and Files
If someone has a Microsoft defender HE IS the honeypot. MD can just hook into that browser and track them.
How you think they got Silk Road?
The only time I used TOR mode in Brave was to do download some obscure old 32 bit iPhone IPA games which was an onion link
didnt the silk road guy use his IRL name for it somewhere and was bragging about it in someway, I remember reading that he didnt have any opsec at all
Oh shit I was not aware of that…also I found out that an fib agent was able to get in under the username “iceman”
They've gotten a number of people operating Tor sites through things like tracing crypto transactions and web hosting mistakes. One example I heard was a site that was hosted in Tor, but the images were hosted on a home server straight over the internet instead of through Tor.
What's that?