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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...
Traffic-correlation and timing-style deanonymization attacks against Tor are well-documented and can succeed under realistic conditions — particularly when an adversary can observe or control both end...
No government transparency report or court filing in the provided sources explicitly names operational techniques for intercepting or circumventing Apple’s iCloud Private Relay; instead, the public re...
Law enforcement in 2025 uses a mix of network-level traffic analysis, running or controlling Tor relays, malware/forensic operations and open-source intelligence — each effective only under specific c...
It is not categorically impossible to from broken NAND chips, but in practice a hairline crack or severe physical damage usually makes reliable recovery effectively impossible for most labs and consum...
Defending against deanonymization on Tor requires both protocol-aware choices (use current Tor software, entry-guard discipline, and onion services where appropriate) and strict operational hygiene (a...
Operating-system DNS services like systemd-resolved, nscd and other system caches can cause DNS queries to bypass Tor’s SOCKS proxy and be sent to local or ISP resolvers, producing the classic “DNS le...