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German Police Academy

Higher-education institution in Germany for police that can grant PhDs

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Dec 16, 2025
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Can law enforcement trace Tor users who only viewed illegal images without downloading them?

Law enforcement can and has de-anonymized some Tor users, but Tor’s designers say the project cannot trace users itself; investigations typically rely on traffic-correlation, compromised relays, serve...

Nov 24, 2025
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How did law enforcement attribution operations and honeypot strategies evolve to deanonymize or identify Tor hidden services during 2020–2025?

Between 2020–2025 law‑enforcement and research techniques to unmask Tor hidden services evolved along two parallel tracks: continued use and refinement of traffic‑analysis and relay‑control methods (i...

Dec 1, 2025
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What technical methods can identify Tor users and were any used by police without warrants in 2024?

Timing- and traffic-analysis attacks, browser and device fingerprinting, and control or surveillance of Tor relays are established technical methods researchers and reporters say can de‑anonymize Tor ...

Oct 9, 2025

How do historians verify the number of Jewish deaths during the Holocaust?

Historians establish the scale of Jewish deaths in the Holocaust through *converging demographic and documentary methods*, producing the widely cited estimate of around six million Jewish victims base...

Nov 25, 2025

How have increases in Tor network capacity and new guard node policies changed end-to-end deanonymization risk since 2023?

Since 2023, Tor’s raw relay capacity and software changes aimed at using that spare capacity (notably congestion control in Tor 0.4.7) have increased the network’s throughput and utilization, meaning ...

Nov 9, 2025

Does using a VPN after Tor prevent traffic correlation by police?

Using a VPN after Tor can add obstacles to straightforward traffic-correlation by third parties, but it does not reliably prevent determined, well‑resourced police or state‑level timing‑analysis attac...