While no public incident confirms “NYPD TOP + proxy” as a breach, similar proxied attacks have been documented against:
Key takeaway: Proxies reduce attribution risk but do not guarantee anonymity if the NYPD deploys proper TLS inspection, timing analysis, or internal traffic baselines.
From a technical standpoint, "NYPD + Proxy" often refers to their internal network architecture: nypd+proxy+top
DNS leak: Your machine's default DNS reveals your real IP even when using a proxy.
Fix: Force DNS over proxy
session = requests.Session()
session.trust_env = False # ignore system DNS
For Playwright:
browser = await playwright.chromium.launch(
proxy="server": "http://...", "bypass": ""
)
TLS fingerprinting: Use curl_cffi instead of requests (emulates Chrome/Edge TLS behavior). While no public incident confirms “NYPD TOP +
from curl_cffi import requests
resp = requests.get("https://data.nypdonline.org", impersonate="chrome110")
While most of the world uses RSA-2048, the "Top" tier for NYPD has already begun integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to prevent "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks by state actors.