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Tor: FBI Paid CMU $1 Million to De-Anonymize Users (Threatpost)
2015-11-12 20:15

The Tor Project accuses the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to attack Tor hidden services and uncloak users of the anonymity network.

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 10:43

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other criminal suspects on the dark we...