23.07.2014 - 12:37 [ Techdort ]

Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users — Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws

There‘s some buzz in security circles today after it came out that a session at the upcoming Black Hat Conference entitled „You Don‘t Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: Deanonymizing Users on a Budget“ by Michael McCord and Alexander Volynkin (both of whom work for Carnegie-Mellon University and CERT) had been pulled from the conference at the request of CMU.