[Infowarrior] - Fwd: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

[Richard Forno]

> From: aj reznor 
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> From the "WTF" Files!
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/
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> It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before 
> the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors.
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> Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers from an unnamed commercial hosting provider in France, and paid for 
> them from a bank account in Las Vegas. It’s not clear how the FBI took over the servers in late July, but the bureau was temporarily thwarted 
> when Marques somehow regained access and changed the passwords, briefly locking out the FBI until it gained back control.