• blackfire@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Wikipedia in the vulnerabilities section court case in the Peel Region of Ontario, Canada R. v. Owen, 2017 ONCJ 729 (CanLII), illustrated that law enforcement do in fact have a presence, after Peel Regional Police located who had been downloading illegal material on the Freenet network.[57] The court decision indicates that a Canadian Law Enforcement agency operates nodes running modified Freenet software in the hope of determining who is requesting illegal material.

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      9 days ago

      The modified bit is worrying, the rest is BAU, i’m sure a lot of Tor exit notes are in a DC in Utah.