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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:38 PM Feb 2014

FBI Appears To Have Collected Tormail's Entire Email Database... And It's Using It

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We've mentioned in the past that, for all the focus on the NSA lately, the FBI may be equally, if not more, worrisome for its willingness to collect tons of data on everyone and use it. Back in August, it became pretty clear that the FBI had compromised the Tor Browser Bundle, and had effectively taken over Freedom Hosting -- a popular hosting provider for dark web tor sites -- in order to push out malware that identified Tor users. A month later, it was confirmed that it was the FBI behind the effort, which led to the closing of Freedom Hosting.
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FBI Appears To Have Collected Tormail's Entire Email Database... And It's Using It (Original Post) wildbilln864 Feb 2014 OP

That's why I don't buy drugs online. I buy mine from dirty cops NightWatcher Feb 2014 #1

LOL jwirr Feb 2014 #2

Ok - that made me LOL. myrna minx Feb 2014 #4

Dear FBI, my name is Dweeble and I just came into a windfall of money. Rex Feb 2014 #3

Lots of people have forgotten the FBI in MineralMan Feb 2014 #5

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

1. That's why I don't buy drugs online. I buy mine from dirty cops

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:40 PM

Feb 2014

no paper trail

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

2. LOL

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:41 PM

Feb 2014

myrna minx

(22,772 posts)

4. Ok - that made me LOL.

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Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:43 PM

Feb 2014

Rex

(65,616 posts)

3. Dear FBI, my name is Dweeble and I just came into a windfall of money.

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:43 PM

Feb 2014

Well almost, sadly I need 18,000 US dollars to get it out of the Bank of Province - 800 million that a late aunt left me, she had no surviving children. Bless her soul. Could you give me your ATM pin number so I can make a small withdraw? I would be more than happy to pay you back and then some!

Thanks,

Every Scam Artist Ever.

MineralMan

(146,346 posts)

5. Lots of people have forgotten the FBI in

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:49 PM

Feb 2014

the NSA frenzy. The FBI is actually officially in the business of intelligence gathering inside the US, and it's reportedly very good at it. This does not surprise me one bit. I'm sure they've been working on cracking the TOR world for a long time. They'd like the information on kiddie porn, drugs, and murder for hire stuff, I'm sure.

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