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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...

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...