FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database 195
An anonymous reader writes "Tor Mail was an anonymized email service run over Tor. It was operated by a company called Freedom Hosting, which was shut down by the FBI last August. The owner was arrested for 'enabling child porn,' and the Tor Mail servers suddenly began hosting FBI malware that attempted to de-anonymize users. Now, Wired reports on a new court filing which indicates that the FBI was also able to grab Tor Mail's entire email database. 'The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: "platplus@tormail.net." Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau's own copy of "data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts," according to the complaint (PDF) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.'"
BADTHINK MINDCRIME DETECTED! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Daft (Score:5, Funny)
Phone lines, but only if you speak in Navajo.
Re:Wait, WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
Hey now, are you saying that the same old thing on the internet isn't new and patent-worthy? Heresy!
Re:BADTHINK MINDCRIME DETECTED! (Score:1, Funny)
And that's what I call my penis!