![]() The Tor Project on Wednesday afternoon sent WIRED a statement from its director Roger Dingledine directly accusing Carnegie Mellon of providing its Tor-breaking research in secret to the FBI in exchange for a payment of "at least $1 million." You can now read the full statement on the Tor Project's blog. Now the non-profit Tor Project itself says that it believes the FBI did use Carnegie Mellon's attack technique-and paid them handsomely for the privilege. Ever since a Carnegie Mellon talk on cracking the anonymity software Tor was abruptly pulled from the schedule of the Black Hat hacker conference last year, the security community has been left to wonder whether the research was silently handed over to law enforcement agencies seeking to uncloak the internet's anonymous users. Editor's note: This story has been updated with a response from the FBI denying the Tor Project's account of events. ![]()
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