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Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles
mspohr writes: It looks like Russia's effort to crack Tor was harder than they anticipated. The company that won the contract is now trying to get out of it. Bloomberg reports: "The Kremlin was willing to pay 3.9 million rubles ($59,000) to anyone able to crack Tor, a popular tool for communicating anonymously over the Internet. Now the company that won the government contract expects to spend more than twice that amount to abandon the project. The Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics, and Control Systems—a Moscow arm of Rostec, a state-run maker of helicopters, weapons, and other military and industrial equipment—agreed to pay 10 million rubles ($150,000) to hire a law firm tasked with negotiating a way out of the deal, according to a database of state-purchase disclosures. Lawyers from Pleshakov, Ushkalov and Partners will work with Russian officials on putting an end to the Tor research project, along with several classified contracts, the government documents say."
In Soviet Russia, Tor cracks you!
Maybe that's who gave them the 150k to hire lawyers to get out of the contract... :) (Organized Crime countered with more money to drop the project)
Reminds me of a joke: ...
Guy#1: Help! I lost my wallet with $300, all my credit cards and ID in it. I will give $100 to anyone who finds it and gives it to me.
Guy#2: I'll give $200!