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eww that wikipedia article was horribly written
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_Crime_Drug_Enforcement_Task_Force

It works great for intelligence. I have heard they also check sequential #s if one is found to contain drugs, on the assumption that the sender probably sent out multiple packs. This is how intelligence works, it helps narrow in on evidence so that resources are not wasted. Packs crossing customs in particular are checked. If they decide to spend the time window they have checking packs that have tracking checked with Tor, they are probably going to have higher interception rates than if they don't do this. I know of at least three international orders with major amounts of product in them (including blotter paper in two cases) that were snagged by customs after the tracking was checked with Tor, in some cases fairly frequently. If the checking of tracking with Tor was directly related to the interceptions or not is unknown, but I wouldn't be surprised. What legitimate reason is there for a pack from NL to USA to have tracking checked by ten different IP addresses from around the world / Tor exit nodes? This is certainly a red flag regardless of if it is being utilized as one or not, but the ease of utilization makes it seem almost certain that it is being utilized.

Checking tracking with Tor by itself may not be enough to get a package checked in the same way that having any other flag present may not be enough to get the package checked. But is it a flag? I would bet on it.

I have also heard from multiple people that these tracking checking systems are in place, one person who claimed to have a friend with inside knowledge about Canadian customs in particular was the first person to bring the concern of Tor exit nodes checking tracking to light on a private forum. Highly ancedotal evidence, but the claim makes logical sense if you think about it and I don't see any reason why someone would make up lies about customs doing things that are technically in their ability to do. Even if they are not right now it should always be assumed that they will, since they can.

Having said that though, I don't think it's really that far fetched to assume that if they wanted to, LE could use an IP trace as evidence. It's just a matter of how much they care in each unique instance, or if they conceive of doing it. It really isn't hard to trace an IP.

I think it is far fetched to assume that LE will not use Tor checking tracking as a red flag that the package has contraband in it, considering how easy it is to check IP logs from package tracking.

Quote from: kmfkewm on March 08, 2012, 08:32 am

Quote from: inscape on March 08, 2012, 03:47 am

if it's domestic. and any thing the puppy police are trained to sniff out is vacuum sealed, then i really wouldn't fret it bro. a gazillion people check their DCN every day.

and i've yet to see any proof of the vast amounts of IT folks (who would most likely anyways currently be in the process of being laid off due to budget cuts at the usps) but who otherwise spend their days searching thru logs, actively scrutinizing the ip's of the living dead checking their dcn's online every single day, and then hunting down those suspected of using...gasp!...TORRR!!!!!

just sayin'...sa'll good..

do you really think that humans go looking through log files lololololol

slow down. and re-read my post before commenting bro...that's the exact opposite of what i said, lol..

and nobody here is 'retarded'. that many times. or at all...

peace

You said you have yet to see proof of IT workers who spend their days searching through mail tracking logs looking for addresses that have had packs to them checked with Tor. I don't see how else to interpret this other than you think that humans would be the ones searching through logs. In reality the logs would just be intersected with a database of all known Tor exits (and other proxy services) and a third database would be created listing 'suspicious' packages and addresses.

Seriously if you work at customs and your job is to check some % of incoming mail, do you think they will have more luck if they check random packs or if they focus on packs that they know had the tracking checked with Tor?

Yes many people here are retarded multiple times

The difference between retardation and intelligence is often as simple as the difference between a . and a ?

Governmet gets its money by taking it from you. Saying things like government money and free health care is evading the truth.

that will pay for free health care easily enough

Can you seriously say that something will pay for free things with a straight face?

A simple 1% tax on your income will allow me to give you a free apple. You do like free things right?!

sshfs is worth looking into

http://linux.die.net/man/1/sshfs

Essentially it lets you treat a drive on a remote system like a local drive. Just encrypt the remote drive / container with Truecrypt or something and then you can decrypt it on your local machine do operations etc and it will all be persistent from the remote machine via sshfs.

SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a file system for Linux (and other operating systems with a FUSE implementation, such as Mac OS X or FreeBSD) capable of operating on files on a remote computer using just a secure shell login on the remote computer. On the local computer where the SSHFS is mounted, the implementation makes use of the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) kernel module. The practical effect of this is that the end user can seamlessly interact with remote files being securely served over SSH just as if they were local files on his/her computer. On the remote computer the SFTP subsystem of SSH is used.