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Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research (wired.com)
New submitter webdesignerdudes writes with news that Carnegie Mellon University now implies it may have been subpoenaed to give up its anonymity-stripping technique, and that it was not paid $1 million by the FBI for doing so. Wired reports: "In a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder. But it instead implied that the research may have been accessed by law enforcement through the use of a subpoena. 'In the course of its work, the university from time to time is served with subpoenas requesting information about research it has performed,' the statement reads. 'The university abides by the rule of law, complies with lawfully issued subpoenas and receives no funding for its compliance.'"
"Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder."
Now if that word "direct" had not been there I would have a little more faith.
As well know , there are hundreds of ways to indirectly pay for stuff...... "Hey here's some money for your sports team", "hey here's some money for your building funds", etc etc etc etc etc
"hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder"...
So they have received indirect payments or have received direct payments from non-government funders.
That's like when the Bush administration found "dozens of weapons of mass destruction related program activities" in Iraq, but no actual WMDs.