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German authorities

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Nov 4, 2025
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Can law enforcement track Tor users on onion sites?

Law enforcement can and has deanonymized some Tor users, but such successes rely on a mix of targeted technical attacks, operational weaknesses, and traditional investigatory work rather than a univer...

Jan 16, 2026
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What law enforcement actions led to the takedown or disruption of venus marketplace?

Reporting collected for this briefing does not include a documented, authoritative law-enforcement operation specifically describing the takedown or disruption of a darknet site called “Venus Market”;...

Oct 22, 2025
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Can ISPs identify Tor browser usage on their networks?

ISPs can often detect that a user is connecting to the Tor network because , though advanced techniques like pluggable transports or VPN chaining can obscure but not guarantee invisibility. Recent law...

Feb 3, 2026

What has Operation Grange published about its findings and what investigative steps remain open?

publicly set out that its initial task was an investigative review of all prior inquiries into disappearance and that, since becoming a full investigation in 2013, it has worked with Portuguese and to...

Dec 18, 2025

What legal defenses have succeeded in court when defendants argue Tor preserved their privacy or obscured attribution?

Courts have sometimes shielded defendants or third parties from compelled identification by recognizing anonymity interests and protecting security researchers who used anonymizing tools, but there is...

Dec 5, 2025

What digital forensics techniques prove a TOR user's identity and link them to illegal content?

Digital forensics cannot reliably “prove” a Tor user's identity from Tor traffic alone; investigators use traffic‑analysis (timing/correlation), website‑ and circuit‑fingerprinting, Network Investigat...