The idea of course being that if you see traffic from TOR and its a private connection, you know its feds. If you instead publicize it and the fed version is indistinguishable from the normie one (because theyre just the same version) then you dont know if you have regular paranoid traffic or fed traffic, thus protecting feds.
They ones that you think are obvious are obvious
If they weren’t obvious you wouldn’t notice them
Maybe they make you think you’re doing a good job avoiding them by putting out bad ones, then get you with a good one
Tor is mostly funded by the US government too. It’s still amazing software, and even CIA and FBI agents use it iirc.
The idea of course being that if you see traffic from TOR and its a private connection, you know its feds. If you instead publicize it and the fed version is indistinguishable from the normie one (because theyre just the same version) then you dont know if you have regular paranoid traffic or fed traffic, thus protecting feds.
Yep, it’s a nice arrangement for both feds and mere mortals.
Anonymity loves company.
And like. The feds are dumbasses. Their honeypots are so fucking obvious.
They ones that you think are obvious are obvious
If they weren’t obvious you wouldn’t notice them
Maybe they make you think you’re doing a good job avoiding them by putting out bad ones, then get you with a good one
True. Nobody’s noticed I’m a fed yet.
Dang, shoulda called it, classic fed behavior feeding the assumption that fed honeypots are easy to spot…
@CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world is this true?
Nah, Ricky has been totally flying under the radar, no one has flagged him as a fed yet! …. Wait. GOD DAMNIT RICKY!
How do I know your not a bad honeypot though?