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Tor alleges FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to hack hidden services

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Nov

2015

The Tor Project is alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paid Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers $1 million to attack Tor’s hidden services last year. The attack appears to have indiscriminately targeted several users at once and not just those suspected of criminal activity, Tor said in a Nov. 11 post adding there […]

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Feud heats up over chip cards, FBI warning

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Oct

2015

A #national retail federation attorney said Wednesday that an updated #fbi #warning on chip card vulnerabilities waters down the need for #pin #security. The FBI on Friday posted a revised warning about vulnerabilities with new chip-embedded credit cards that deletes language about the need to use PIN security, which had appeared in the FBI’s original […]

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The Encryption Debate: Law Enforcement Special Access Is Not a Solution

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Oct

2015

On September 10, 2015, the #fbi Director James B. Comey continued advocating #law enforcement’s concerns that companies’ adoption of stronger #encryption without possessing a key to decode it creates an environment favoring criminals and impeding investigators. The debate about whether law enforcement should possess the ability to access #encrypted communications has risen to the surface […]

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