Security News > 2015 > November > Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI? (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-16 12:19
There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users for the FBI. Details are in this Vice story and this Wired story (and these https://blog.torproject.org/blog/did-fbi-pay-university-attack-tor-users">two follow-on Vice stories). And here's the reaction from the Tor Project. Nicholas Weaver guessed this back in January. The behavior...
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