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If, as the Tor blog post insinuates, the product of the CMU research was "targeted data dump to the Feds to investigate criminal activity," I could see the hand
by bri3d 11y ago
If, as the Tor blog post insinuates, the product of the CMU research was "targeted data dump to the Feds to investigate criminal activity," I could see the hand-wringing being warranted. That's paying a university to do law enforcement work.
If the product was (as it seems based on public information) "paper about how to attack Tor along with a couple of case studies," I really don't see the problem.
The kerfuffle around the talk and paper's release is certainly interesting in its own right, though.
- gwright 11y ago> That's paying a university to do law enforcement work. Not really. The organization involved is SEI, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center sponsored by the Department of Defense. Not at all the same thing as CMU. Mentioning this for clarity, not as a statement about the actually activities.
- zurn 11y agoSo it's FBI paying the military to do law enforcement work. Not really better.