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Tor Project Installs New Board of Directors After Jacob Appelbaum Controversy (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Tor Project announced today that is has elected an entirely new board of directors as part of a larger shake-up after accusations of misconduct by former employee Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum left the company in June after the nonprofit organization said it had received multiple accusations against him. The seven board members that are leaving the organization said in a statement today that it is their "duty to ensure that the Tor Project has the best possible leadership." The New York Times reports that the board agreed to step down following the controversy surrounding Appelbaum. Some of the board members who will be leaving include Tor Project co-founders Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, who will continue to work on the organization's technical research and development team, according to the statement. They will be replaced with several prominent cryptographers and scholars, including University of Pennsylvania professor Matt Blaze, Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn, and security technologist Bruce Schneier. Meanwhile, researchers at MIT have been working on a new anonymity network that they say is more secure than Tor.

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  1. Tor Canary: Tweet Tweet Cough Croak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone believe Tor is secure when the FBI can exploit it at will? and when 100 nodes are revealed to be attack nodes? The most recent disclosure of of the 100 attack nodes did NOT come from the Tor Project, it came from Northeastern University researchers. Tor projects excuses were very noticeable:

    "Roger Dingledine, co-founder of the Tor Project, told Motherboard in an email, “One key thing to understand is that those are not all relays that are in the Tor network at the same time, and few to none of them are in the Tor network right now.” "

    Reading Roger's response, does this sound like a man actively hunting for bad nodes? Because it sounds like a man covering up bad nodes to me.

    It should be obvious that Tor would be the first to receive a demand to backdoor their product, and given their funding they would be the most compliant.

    Jacob should fork TOR, secure it, relaunch it himself and be very careful about the people he hires.