Russia open procurement for report on deanonymization of Tor users

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Sun Jul 27 10:38:29 PDT 2014


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=0373100088714000008

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?





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