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Government Deanonymization Operations
Several multinational government law enforcement operations have been conducted in the past decade to deanonymize Tor onion services and their users. In 2012 Operation Torpedo and 2015 Operation Pacifier the U.S. government worked with international partners (many in the VGT) to use DDOS attacks and/or Network Investigative Techniques (NITs) to deanonymize the hidden websites and the anonymous users. In 2019 the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) worked in a joint operation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Brazilian Federal Police in Operation Lobos 1 to use some form of non NIT method to deanonymize the Tor users over the course of 3 months (see UK TEI warrants 91-TEI-0147-2019 and 91-TEI-0146-2019[1]). Brazilian court documents report 106[2] search warrants authorized in Brazil, and the U.S. government reports 100's[3] of leads generated in the U.S. 12 other countries were part of the Virtual Global Taskforce also participated in some way. Publications by a person aliased as Nusenu whom describes the Kax17[4] attack on Tor aligns well with this and similar government sponsored Tor user deanonymization attacks and Rob Jansen's of the Naval research laboratory's traffic analysis technique[5][6].