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Revealed: at least 22 Californians have died while being held face down by police since 2016
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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Sorry, what? Gosh. We're talking regular old cops downloading Tor and heading to something like blueline.onion?
No most of them use clearweb proxies. I mean I understand not everyone understands how the darkweb works but maybe be a little less patronizing on things you don't know shit about?
Patronizing? Sorry if that's how I came across. I just haven't touched anything dark-web related in over a decade and that's the mental image I get when people bring it up. And it's hard to get most people that aren't really into tech to use anything other than Chrome or the preinstalled browser.
Of course, people who make a whole career of “fighting crime” have no idea how to commit crime effectively. /s
I mean, if they're using web-based proxies which could help a three letter agency get to them... Yeah? Assuming they're discussing and sharing crap that's illegal enough to warrant using the TOR network. Why did that first guy get so damn offended? We basically get a weekly video of cops doing stupid shit with their guns, breaking the law left and right and... I'm supposed to think that an organisation which goes out of its way to hire and undertrain dumb bullies is filled with people who would understand and follow the best network security practices?
There's obviously going to be a damn difference in technical knowledge between your average "beat up the brown guy" crooked cops and your average cyber crime cops. I'm sure they all saw some "online training" powerpoint presentation telling them to not stick random flash drives in their computers and to not use public wifi hotspots, but beyond that?...
So yes, I'm still surprised to learn that there's apparently some actual .onion forum for regular crooked cops out there. I would've figured that at most they'd use some signal group chat along with a VPN. Not that I ever gave it a thought, honestly. It's literally worse than would've ever thought. Crooked cops are that self-aware and cover their tracks better than I would've thought.
Yeah but they're the cops. They don't police themselves, and the feds won't ever do anything.
Yeah, probably never. Which does make it weird that they're taking the trouble to use the TOR network at all... But hey. I'll always appreciate any thorn in the way of fascists.
There are other options nowadays that weren't available a decade ago.
You can be on TOR within 40 seconds of download and on mobile its even easier.
And again, clearweb proxies.
You YOURSELF admit you are a decade out of date yet still arrogant in your ignorance.
Have a good day, officer.
fuck you for even joking about it.
My dude, you just seemed awfully angry that I implied most cops are too fucking dumb to know their way around a computer... In a thread about police brutality so widespread we're taking count of how many times cops kill people in specific ways. I really didn't mean to insult you. I did mean the first part of my last comment, though. Have a good day. And chill a little.
You would have to be pretty stupid to use TOR on a phone imo. Not sure how much it matters where the computer is telling them you're accessing from, when they can use 3 cell phone towers to locate you within a foot or two.
Unless maybe you're the hacker girl from Criminal Minds or some shit.
Stop running your mouth and put up a link
I'm not being complicit in amping their SEO, there are literally a dozen tor search engines that will get you there in 2 mins.