Correction: CHRISTOPHER Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

George W. Maschke maschke at zonnet.nl
Thu Nov 30 14:32:07 UTC 2006


Sorry, Mr. Soghoian's first name is Christopher, not Stephen.

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University of Indiana graduate student Stephen Soghoian, against whom
the U.S. Government considered filing criminal charges stemming from an
airline boarding pass generator that he posted on-line, in the 28
November 2006 entry of his weblog,/ slight paranoia
<http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/>,/ comments among other things, on
the attitude of federal investigators toward the Tor project:

    The Feds (at least those that I met) fundamentally disagree with me
    on many subjects - the role that researchers, academics, and common
    citizens take in studying, criticizing and pointing out the flaws in
    our security systems. I have been laying the groundwork for some Tor
    <http://tor.eff.org> related research at Indiana University (pending
    approval from the University Counsel) - in fact, two of Tor's
    designers are visiting researchers at IU this year. It was made
    perfectly clear during the meeting that parts of the US government,
    at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of
    Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as
    IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others
    <http://proxy.org/tor.shtml> have no business supporting such projects.




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