Renegade NSA, GCHQ spies fix Tor vulns – claims project chief

  • 22 August 2014
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By John Leyden, 22 Aug 2014
 
Cyberspies at GCHQ and the NSA leak details of vulnerabilities in Tor, according to a leading developer of the anonymity-preserving software.
Andrew Lewman, the Tor Project's executive director, claimed that some spies place a higher priority on fixing flaws in the privacy-preserving technology than keeping secret bugs that might help their colleagues' "dark web" surveillance efforts.
 "There are plenty of people in both organisations who can anonymously leak data to us to say - maybe you should look here, maybe you should look at this to fix this," Lewman ?told? the BBC. "And they have."
 
The Register/ Full Article Here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/22/spies_leak_tor_bugs/

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