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		tptacek on Jan 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month a... CMU has had "NSA funding" for something like 20 years; it's the nation's software security "center of excellence", going back to CMU CERT, AKA CERT. This is an especially silly bit of innuendo given that Tor is itself DoD funded.

mirimir on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

The association of SR2 deanonymization with CMU's withdrawn Black Hat presentation is indeed speculative. But there's arguably more to it than innuendo. Time will tell.

It's well known that the DoD has funded Tor from the start. But it's at least decent of them to independently fund CMU to compromise it ;)

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