Getting Busted Online -=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=- -=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=- MYTH: It’s easy for law enforcement to trace people online. FACT: This is not so unless you take zero precautions. Bouncing off any kind of proxy will significantly hinder law enforcement. Bouncing off anything that scrubs and then forgets your IP address makes tracing you via the network nearly impossible once you have ceased sending traffic. Everyone who gets caught is caught by traditional police-work or by following a trail of logged IP addresses. While it is possible to carry out timing correlation attacks against low-latency networks such as Tor, these are only within the capabilities of intelligence agencies. There is no credible evidence so suggest that these capabilities have been used to identify hackers, warez groups or virus authors and they will certainly not be used against ordinary peer-to-peer users. -=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=- MYTH: