Source: If You Can’t Beat Them, Hire Them. How The FBI Learned To Exploit Tor AnonHQ
An investigation by DailyDot has revealed that the development of malware software known as Torsploit, utilized by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, was created by one of the founders of the Tor Project itself. In a statement released to the DailyDot, the Tor Project announced: “It has come to our attention that Matt Edman, who worked with the Tor Project until 2009, subsequently was employed by a defense contractor working for the FBI to develop anti-Tor malware.”
As the report indicates, following his graduation from Baylor University in 2008, Mr. Edman went to work developing privacy tools in conjunction with the Tor Project. It was said that Edman worked primarily with Vidalia software, which the Tor Project officially dropped in 2013…
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