Moreover, it may have exposed people that have no criminal intentions to their information leak because Tor network is commonly used by the human rights activists, whistleblowers, journalists, etc. It was also not clear if other organizations like NSA got involved in the investigation as well. Tor network is used not only by criminals though, and thus the successful FBI’s attempt at identifying the criminal raises worries for the Tor community since it was unclear if they built the code for the exploit from nothing or they used an improved open source code.
Defense lawyer Joseph Gross states that they are getting programmers that are going to investigate the process FBI used to identify the defendant. Instead the current debate is whether the evidences obtained during the investigation can be used in court. It seems like the operator of one of the websites does not try to deny his activity as the administrator of the Dark Net website. The target of an FBI attack, “Operation Torpedo”, were 3 illegal child porn sites. FBI exploited the vulnerability in Flash code from abandoned Metasploit project that is called “Decloacking Engine”. What may be surprising though is the fact that even FBI themselves have started using the tool to successfully identify suspects on the Tor network for the first time ever. People who’s job is to stop hackers – security experts, also use this tool to test the products resistance to cyber attacks.
The tool is used not only by hackers though.
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