NSA Targets Tor: Leaks Show US Weakens Privacy Tools It Pays To Build [1]

 

CNN Money: Jeff John Roberts, 10/04/13

 

(gigaom.com [2]) -- A top secret slide show by the National Security Agency shows how the US government has been trying to compromise the Tor network, a tool that allows people to communicate anonymously on the internet.

The slide show [3], published by the Guardian [4] is the latest in a series of leaks from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The Tor technology it describes was, ironically, largely paid for by the US government as a way to provide a private communication system for the military and for dissidents to escape surveillance.

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