On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:15:15PM +0000, Anton Nesterov wrote:

It's tender by "Special equipment and communication of Ministry of Internal Affairs". Title fully says "Study the possibility of obtaining technical information about users (user equipment) on anonymous network Tor, codename TOR (navy)"

~$111500 (3 900 000 roubles)

http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/zkk44/view/common-info.html?regNumber...

Here's some press about it. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/russia-announces-111000-bounty-identify-tor-users/?utm_source=o1&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=o1#!bnX9eL I find two things particularly amusing. 1) that russian companies and citizens would have to pay an entry fee 2) CMU dropped their blackhat presenation https://www.blackhat.com/latestintel/07212014-a-schedule-update.html How likely is it the NSA decided to embargoed CMU's presentation so they could keep the data flowing out of Russia via Tor, or does CMU just have a russian company they are going to 'license' this too?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:15:15PM +0000, Anton Nesterov wrote:

It's tender by "Special equipment and communication of Ministry of Internal Affairs". Title fully says "Study the possibility of obtaining technical information about users (user equipment) on anonymous network Tor, codename TOR (navy)"

~$111500 (3 900 000 roubles)

http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/zkk44/view/common-info.html?regNumber...

According to my conspiracy theory, this is just disinformation to calm down paranoid Tor lusers. They well might be in bed with the american comrades. If the above is false the price appears too low for significant sploit. According to a Snowden leak the NSA wrote in presentation something along the lines: "We can deanonymize some Tor lusers, but we definitely don't won't to scare _all of them_".