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by g-b-r 2198 days ago
I think it's more likely that they used something targeting the browsers, maybe with 0-days maybe not.

But it doesn't seem to me that the FBI put much effort into this whole thing, maybe it was more a concern for Facebook than for them.

As I understand it knowing that someone is using Tor is usually trivial, the exit nodes normally set a reverse DNS record that signals it and there are exit nodes blacklists

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> As I understand it knowing that someone is using Tor is usually trivial

Yeah, Facebook almost certainly receives a lot of attempted traffic from those relatively few TOR exit node IPs, so I'm sure part of their system is aware that they are effectively proxy IPs.