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Developer Of Anonymous Tor Software Dodges FBI, Leaves US (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: FBI agents are currently trying to subpoena one of Tor's core software developers to testify in a criminal hacking investigation, CNNMoney has learned. But the developer, who goes by the name Isis Agora Lovecruft, fears that federal agents will coerce her to undermine the Tor system -- and expose Tor users around the world to potential spying. That's why, when FBI agents approached her and her family over Thanksgiving break last year, she immediately packed her suitcase and left the United States for Germany. "I was worried they'd ask me to do something that hurts innocent people -- and prevent me from telling people it's happening," she said in an exclusive interview with CNNMoney. Earlier in the month, Tech Dirt reported the Department of Homeland Security wants to subpoena the site over the identity of a hyperbolic commenter.
In addition, while that sounds like a threat, the FBI agent, at that point in the conversation, may have believed the person he was talking to was impersonating her lawyer. He probably thought it was a journalist trying to insert themselves. Come back when the FBI has actually done something bad, not when some person is "stressed" because they are worried that the FBI might do something bad at some time in the future just because they want to talk to her. 99.999% of the FBI's work is the boring police work where they need to ask people questions to catch the actual bad guys.
If you're going to work on TOR, be ready to answer a few questions from the police every once in a while. You can't possible be so naive as to believe that TOR is never used for illicit activities.