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by marincounty 4120 days ago
"prosecutors first responded that a misconfiguration of the site’s CAPTCHA had leaked its IP address when FBI investigators typed some “miscellaneous” characters into entry fields on the site’s homepage"

Yea right? Tor was hacked, or was finally given the backdoor key by the NSA? I imagine the NSA held off for years, but finally knew the FBI would never stop the site--so they reluctantly helped out the FBI? I do wonder why the CIA didn't just assassinate Ross? (Personally, I think it was a mistake to let Terrorists question the security of TOR?)