Re: More on the tor scam

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 16:01 -0400, x50@fastmail.fm wrote:

I'd recommend the blog post about this, if you haven't seen it already:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-c...

It should answer some of your questions. I have only seen speculation on why the talk was cancelled.

The talk was almost certainly canceled because it contained admissions of violating federal wiretapping laws, which is what happens if you de-anonymize Tor users in the wild. This is a legally gray area in theory, but I think in practice it would never be judged in favor of the defendant, and so the CMU legal team pulled the talk to avoid exposing themselves to liability. -- Sent from Ubuntu