Hmm...
Clearly Tor honeypots dont work if theres a bounty out there.
I suspect if they do find a way the Ruski crims will start their own network...if they havent already got one that is.
Also there seems to be a lot of focus on Tor when plenty of alternatives exist such as I2P.
This suggests either the usage on the alternatives for crime is very low or they've been cracked already.
I also cant see how cracking one network would be of huge benefit to the spies, since anyone concerned about hiding themselves will most likely have thought of some additional security any way.
E.g. have your tor service hidden within a jurisdiction outside of their local authority (Iceland for example) or combine two anonymising services host your service on I2P and proxy from your tor facing service to I2P and visa versa. Only allowing one network to reach the other, no direct access from either. Of course as we know extra security doesnt protect you per se it only adds extra time until you're caught or you implement your next strategy.
I can think of multitudes of strategies to add extra hideyness. Its probably possible to keep moving for huge amounts of time.
Cracking Tor will only result in catching the smaller fish and dumbasses. People that would probably slip up anyway. I.e. people that insist on having a pseudonym that they accidentally use somewhere outside Tor or people that dont configure their security well enough.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
