Quote from: TravellingWithoutMoving on February 16, 2013, 03:22 pmQuote from: raven92 on February 14, 2013, 09:08 pmQuote from: hornblower on February 14, 2013, 06:43 amCheck the date on the post. August 2012. It's six months old.Highly unlikely that, if the author's assertions were true, within six months this wouldn't have caused tremors big enough that no one here wouldn't have known.But then again, when did Pine disappear?Also, if the tor network was compromised, I'd hope that the FBI nabs every single pedo on it and rescue children.There's nothing immoral about what we're doing, it's just illegal.Pine disappeared a few months ago, Dec 18th was the Last Seen on that account. Who knows though, s(he) could still be here. Also regarding the OP, it is very likely there are Nodes owned by the DEA FBI and CIA. I don't believe they own the majority of them, and I believe the Tor maintainers try their best to keep the code free from any back-doors. Believing they have every Tor user stashed away in some Database seems unlikely, and not even useful...agree with most howeverit doesnt stop a development team whos sole purpose is to produce a version of Tor/theclient or hacked version.anything can piggyback Tor long as its coded soTWMYou miss the point. Tor is a network with multiple layers of encryption. I connect to some guy (say next door), and say "I want to connect to xxxxxx.onion please," and he says "sure, hang on." So he goes off and does the same thing, saying "connect to xxxx.onion por favor, gracias mi amigo!" and on and on. When we finally hit xxxx.onion, I encrypt my connection to the next guy the same way I do when I'm accessing my bank's website. Same basic methods. But not only is that link encrypted, every hop along the way is also encrypted like the layers of an onion: so nobody can see what data is passing through.So it wouldn't do them any good to run relay nodes, unless they're attempting to get a large enough view of the network to start seeing statistical correlations with a high degree of certainty. But as astor pointed out, that's not really necessary for them to do anyway.... fuck, that explanation is a little off... I'm drawing a blank on the specifics of the network right now. Just not coming to me right now. Well, that's the basic premise though; and I suppose nobody really cares about the implementation details except four of us (hi guys! I'm still glad you're here, BTW, LOL).And of course Nightcrawler, but he's been MIA for a few weeks I think. It's really a shame too... his information was always as solid and reliable as it gets.