[tor-talk] Clarification of Tor's involvement with DARPA's Memex

[benjamin barber]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FV6xe-Qhf_MJ:www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/post-pn-488.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


"Collaboration with Tor Project Inc. Tor Project Inc. has supported a large
number of LEAs in the US and Europe by explaining how to use Tor for LEA
operations and how criminals may use it, as well as by developing tools and
documentation that can assist LEA operations. However, they would not be
willing to specifically advise LEAs on ways to exploit limitations in the
Tor software. The Executive Director of Tor Project Inc., Andrew Lewman,
says he would like to intensify collaborations with LEAs and policy makers
in the UK."

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Thomas White <thomaswhite at riseup.net>
wrote:

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> So I was reading through the following article:
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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/17/darpa-nasa-and-par
> tners-show-off-memex/
>
> And there is some references to DARPA collaborating with some
> developers from Tor Project. I'd like to ask the developers of Tor to
> clarify what this involvement entails and why effort is being put
> towards a LE tool instead of working on hiding Tor users through
> improving anonymity or developing more circumvention based-tech.
>
> Hope I don't come off as a Pando-type, but there is always going to be
> a concern where Tor is involved with LE and it isn't out in the open
> (to my knowledge) already.
>
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