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Tails Distro update fails to address serious zero-day vulnerabilities

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by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-22 21:14 (#2MB)

Talk on cracking Internet anonymity service Tor withdrawn from conference

By Joseph Menn | SAN FRANCISCO, July 21

"A heavily anticipated talk on how to identify users of the Tor Internet privacy service has been withdrawn from the upcoming Black Hat security conference.

A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/cybercrime-conference-talk-idUSL2N0PW14320140721
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456700/black-hat-presentation-on-tor-suddenly-cancelled.html
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/is-tor-truly-anonymising-conference-cancelled

Re: Meanwhile... (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-22 21:18 (#2MD)

That's spooky and weird. Having something like Tor benefits everyone, even the military. Wonder if it was CMU's - I mean CMU's lawyers' - own choice, or what? Were they asked to keep it down while someone knuckles down and deals with the zero days vulns?

Re: Meanwhile... (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-22 21:43 (#2ME)

I feel there's a war on Tor/TAILS.

When it ends and Tor is thrown to the wind, they will continue their attacks against any sort of privacy service which doesn't pay nice with TPTB.

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