[john_strinlai]

>We have seen multiple cases of people getting caught on there

as far as i am aware, no one has been caught due to something technical in relation to tor.

it's always something dumb like logging into an email that has the person's real name in it, using a credit card, leaving javascript on, or otherwise making some opsec failure.

[j0ej0ej0e]

There is another angle not a lot of people consider. There was a Defcon video I recall watching from 10-15 years ago where the speaker referenced a case where police managed to arrest someone because the Tor traffic on the network (maybe a university) was so unusual as a one time event at a specific location, the police managed to tie the individual to specific Tor activity. The speaker's conclusion was essentially we should all be using Tor to create and normalise a higher volume of Tor traffic which can in turn help protect other Tor user's anonymity.

[john_strinlai]

i believe that case is this one from 2013: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/fbi-traces-...

"Reading the criminal complaint, it seems that the FBI got itself a list of Harvard users that accessed the Tor network, and went through them one by one to find the one who sent the threat, [...]"

"The FBI didn't have to break Tor; they just used conventional police mechanisms to get Kim to confess," Schneier wrote. "Tor didn't break; Kim did.""

[zahlman]

It's increasingly difficult to accomplish much on the Internet without JavaScript, though. This is an era where literal image hosting sites won't show you an image without it; where it's used to reinvent <details> tags, forms, even ordinary hyperlinks.

[jupr]

On the other hand, it's never been easier to design a place that doesn't need those things, or be confident the javascript is on your side.

javascript, like tor, is powerful in both directions depending on what it's used for.

[pseudalopex]

This could be true. But law enforcers lied how they found evidence in other cases.[1] They could have lied in Tor cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction