[tor-talk] BBC: NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs', alleges developer

[Griffin Boyce]

Mirimir wrote:
> On 08/25/2014 12:31 AM, Lunar wrote:
>> I don't find this particular BBC article relevant to Tor Weekly News.
>> It's just one more drop on the “BBC hates Tor” series.
> 
> It would be nice to have a section in TWN for notable public statements
> by Tor Project folk. Andrew Lewman's comment about suspected bug leaks
> from NSA and GCHQ staff was rather notable, no? But then, someone would
> need to be responsible for that. And we can all read the news.

   It's a really interesting statement, but BBC took it and wrote the 
story they were going to write anyway.  Problematic.

   Really, the statement Andrew made just emphasizes the fact that all 
sorts of individuals use anonymity to do positive things.  People use 
Tor to make anonymous tips all over the world, and it just so happens 
that Tor might be on the receiving end occasionally. =)

   Also, all of my non-list email is filtered to send mail containing 
"dark web" into an easily-ignored bucket.  Because most of the time 
those are looking at hidden services from a unrealistically-negative 
angle.  =P

~Griffin


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