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by jcromartie 5070 days ago
Hardly. They got to the people operating accounts on those sites.

On the other hand, Anonymous has actually pulled off something that revealed users on Tor.

http://pastebin.com/hquN9kg5

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What they did was pwned a website and used that to hack its users via downloaded malware. The website was hosted as a Tor hidden service.

Again, this is not something that any anonymity network system is going to defend against. The fact that the attackers had to resort to hacking a server and then socially engineering users to download and agree to run the malware shows that Tor was working well.

On the other hand, the way they describe using a DDoS against specific exit nodes and correlating that with outages against a specific hidden service could be considered an attack on this feature of Tor. However, there's little to no data presented and it's mixed in with a lot of other odd factors so I'm very skeptical.

Opdarknet looked different to me from the other operations of Anonymous. My guess is that it was some unrelated entity using Anonymous as a cover. It's weird how they spend as much time bashing specific Tor developers as they do on the CP criminals.