It's also worth noting that Civil asset forfeiture is becoming more controversial because of perceived misuse. An extreme example would be simply carrying large quantities of cash with no other indicators of illegal activity have been used in the past to initiate forfeiture.
Pretty sure that guy you are responding to didn't. There are countries other than America out there that also think crime is a bad thing and are happy to cooperate to stop it.
Because the US created and still largely controls the internet, in practice if not in ideology. Also we have the largest military and law enforcement reach on the planet.
The FBI should not apply American rules on a global populatioj. .com and other top level extensions are not us country domain extensions they are global.
The US (and many other governments) claim jurisdiction over crimes committed against their citizens as well as crimes committed by their citizens no matter the physical location.
If you think a country protection its own citizens is "abuse," well, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
> The FBI should not apply American rules on a global populatioj. .com and other top level extensions are not us country domain extensions they are global.
I'm pretty sure they went through ICANN, which would absolutely (and should) support taking down criminals and criminal services from the internet, that they control. There are international laws and treaties. I don't think you'll find too many countries who would agree that it's ok to sell DDoS services. There is no legitimate use for them. Are you suggesting that that position is strictly an American one? I tend to think it's a global one...
You may agree today with how that attack is being used, but history is a good indicator that you'll likely not always agree with what the government does or how it misuses it's power.
Long term I expect decentralized domain name solutions to replace the currently vulnerable ones.
In the absence of any international organization with the power to remove criminal sites, the U.S. government has every obligation to act. Provided, of course, that there is a demonstrated and ongoing crime involved.
This is a good illustration of why the top-level DNS naming structure should have been aligned with legal jurisdictions (basically the two-letter country codes) and not some quasi-global-legally-ambiguous-originally-american global namespace.
Law enforcement does one of two things to "take down" a site:
1. Seize servers via an IP address
2. Seize a domain record itself and redirect it
Both of these "attacks" are not possible with Tor hidden services, because a.) there is no IP associated with the hidden service (although Tor in theory is subject to traffic correlation) and b.) there is no domain record that can be redirected unless you actually have the corresponding private key since Tor hidden service addresses are the public component of that keypair.
Well, the obvious difficulty is in nailing the specific IP address, and thusly the location of the server hosting the content, due to the obfuscation that TOR provides.
It’s essentially the same reason you’re safe browsing it.
The issue, however, is that web sites always need to be hosted on a physical server somewhere, and all it takes is one social media account or email that gives away some aspect of your identity or location for them to find it - assuming you’re doing something illegal of course. There’s nothing inherently illegal with hosting TOR sites. :P
That doesn’t mean that shutdowns don’t happen, though. The FBI recently shut down a number of TOR sites with illegal content.
> The takedown stems from an investigation that started no later than last August and culminated in a court order issued Wednesday directing domain registrar Verisign to turn over control of ToKnowAll.com.
I also have to wonder if any of the DDOS services used by Verizon, MPAA, and other US corporations to attack IP violators (or in Verizon's case, their own comment pages) are affected. It's illegal, but somehow it never seems to be prosecuted or stopped when it's being done by the right people.
