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The FBI and other law‑enforcement groups have successfully de‑anonymized Tor users in multiple high‑profile cases using a combination of targeted malware (so‑called network investigative techniques, N...
The FBI uses a layered toolkit to deanonymize dark‑web users that combines malware-style Network Investigative Techniques (NITs), network and timing analysis (including controlling or observing Tor no...
Court‑authorized Network Investigative Techniques (NITs) have been used by U.S. law enforcement to deanonymize some Tor users and build criminal cases, and those uses have generated litigation and pub...
Politicians who have faced allegations or admissions of past drug use have responded in a few recurring ways: public admission and framing it as youthful experimentation or recovery; denial and callin...
Documented research and reporting show multiple notable instances where traffic-correlation techniques were used or demonstrated to deanonymize Tor users: academic attacks and proofs-of-concept (e.g.,...
Mainstream news coverage and trade outlets have often described Dr. Mehmet Oz’s health endorsements as sensational, consequential, or politically controversial, while peer-reviewed medical journals an...
Qatar has been identified as the largest foreign funder of U.S. higher education, with a Department of Education dashboard and multiple reports showing roughly $6.6 billion in gifts, contracts and lon...
Readability analyses show that speaking at an “elementary” or lower-middle-school grade level is common among recent presidential candidates, with many clustering around grades 6–8 and a handful—most ...
A number of high‑profile federal cases and dozens of related prosecutions explicitly tie child‑pornography investigations to use of the Tor anonymity network, most famously the FBI’s takeover of the T...
Two distinct concepts use the phrase “neuro silence” in current reporting: a rigorously tested academic algorithm called SilenceMap that detects localized “neural silences” from scalp EEG, and a suite...
The FBI has historically used a small set of technical approaches to deanonymize Tor users: targeted "network investigative techniques" (NITs) that deploy malware or client-side code from servers, exp...
If you are investigated for accessing illegal sites over Tor, immediate legal defenses typically centre on contesting attribution (showing the connection to your device or intent is uncertain) and dem...
Tor is a decades‑old anonymity network and nonprofit project that routes users’ traffic through volunteer relays to protect privacy; its core team was founded in 2006 and the code traces to earlier on...
PBS is a long-standing public broadcaster known for that extend into STEM learning and documentary production; recent internal schedules and program pages show topical coverage while academic collabor...