Black Hat Presentation On Tor Cancelled, Developers Working on Bug Fix

alphadogg writes A presentation on a low-budget method to unmask users of a popular online privacy tool Tor will no longer go ahead at the Black Hat security conference early next month. The talk was nixed by the legal counsel with Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute after a finding that materials from researcher Alexander Volynkin were not approved for public release, according to a notice on the conference's website. Tor project leader Roger Dingledine said, "I think I have a handle on what they did, and how to fix it. ... Based on our current plans, we'll be putting out a fix that relays can apply that should close the particular bug they found. The bug is a nice bug, but it isn't the end of the world." Tor's developers were "informally" shown materials about the bug, but never saw any details about what would be presented in the talk.

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popular online privacy tool Tor

[Mister Liberty]

Since when is Tor popular?
Since when is Tor a privacy tool?

Re:TOR is actually sponsored by Uncle Sam

[bug1]

You dont have to trust Uncle Sam, you have to (trust/dont trust) the source code.

OpenSSL

[ArchieBunker]

How many people trusted the OpenSSL source code? How many people actually read it?