An analysis he wrote on the associated forum now seems prescient. The attack through TorMail alarmed many in the Darknet, including the underground’s most notorious figure - Dread Pirate Roberts, the operator of the Silk Road drug forum, who took the unusual step of posting a warning on the Silk Road homepage. No mass deployment of the FBI’s malware had ever before been spotted in the wild. is now seeking his extradition for allegedly facilitating child porn on a massive scale hearings are set to begin in Dublin this week.
In July, the FBI moved on the company and had the alleged operator, Eric Eoin Marques, arrested at his home in Ireland. But it had a reputation for tolerating child pornography on its servers. Tor hidden services are used by those seeking to evade surveillance or protect users’ privacy to an extraordinary degree – human rights groups and journalists as well as serious criminal elements.īy some estimates, Freedom Hosting backstopped fully half of all hidden services at the time it was shut down last year - TorMail among them. onion, that hide their geographic location behind layers of routing, and can be reached only over the Tor anonymity network. The affair also sheds a little more light on the already-strange story of the FBI’s broad attack on Freedom Hosting, once a key service provider for untraceable websites.įreedom Hosting specialized in providing turnkey “Tor hidden service” sites - special sites, with addresses ending in. TorMail was the webmail provider of choice for denizens of the so-called Darknet of anonymous and encrypted websites and services, making the FBI’s cache extraordinarily valuable. (Rather than comply, Lavabit shut down and is appealing the surveillance order). In another e-mail case, the FBI last year won a court order compelling secure e-mail provider Lavabit to turn over the master encryption keys for its website, which would have given agents the technical ability to spy on all of Lavabit’s 400,000 users – though the government said it was interested only in one.
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