With recent mysterious disappear of many hidden services including SIGAINT and lelantos and mail2tor. DOS of Helix. The disappear of many other hidden services of recently I have been deep down inside suspect that something is not right. Almost wonder if slow carry out of operation onymous 2.0 is underway.
Email would probably be first to be targeted because it holds alot of valuable intel and communications.
PSA dont rely just on Tor. Have second layer of defense in case Tor fails. And encrypt all the things!
bs.
lelantos had issues for a long time as you can see here https://www.reddit.com/r/emailprivacy/wiki/index#wiki_tor_accessible_hidden_webmail_providers
grams is back up already.
sigaint is gone, nothing new that services die after some time [especially if the expand like sigain with a tumbler and monero nodes, it just gives more attack surface and reasons to attack them]. mail2tor is only down for a day or so.
also nothing new, ab asked for private keys about a year ago and leaked hundreds of thousands of messages 10 months ago. Iit is not surprising that they keep that tradition.
dream also was never outstanding in a positive way. the issues [e.g. scamming and doxxing market staff] persisted for a long time and just got more attention recently.
if there was really a law enforcement operation it would be known [law enforcement tries to get credit for the smallest things] and the services would be offline all at once and display a seizure message.
edit: just noticed that the sigaint Tor relay is still up https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=5b92fa5c8a49d46d235735504c72dbb3472ba321