Reefa Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 The Kremlin was willing to pay 3.9 million rubles ($59,000) to anyone able to crack Tor, a popular tool for communicating anonymously over the Internet. Now the company that won the government contract expects to spend more than twice that amount to abandon the project.The Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics, and Control Systems—a Moscow arm of Rostec, a state-run maker of helicopters, weapons, and other military and industrial equipment—agreed to pay 10 million rubles ($150,000) to hire a law firm tasked with negotiating a way out of the deal, according to a database of state-purchase disclosures. Lawyers from Pleshakov, Ushkalov and Partners will work with Russian officials on putting an end to the Tor research project, along with several classified contracts, the government documents say.Last year, Russia’s Interior Ministry posted a contract seeking a group “to study the possibility of obtaining technical information on users and users’ equipment of Tor anonymous network.” A spokesman for the Interior Ministry department that placed the Tor order declined to comment on Tuesday. The Rostec research group declined to comment.Tor, an acronym for “the onion router,” is free software that sends each user’s network traffic across various nodes around the globe, encrypting it at every layer, and making it extremely difficult to track. Tor has been adopted by hackers, criminals, and political dissidents worldwide. Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence contractor currently living in Russia, is an avid Tor supporter. The number of users in Russia has jumped about 40 percent from the beginning of the year, to more than 175,000, according to data from the Tor Project, which develops the service. The Tor Project, a nonprofit funded in part by the U.S. government, had $3.53 million in revenue in 2013, the last year it reported financials on its website.bloomberg.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Why so many individuals trying to hack tor just leave it alone might as well its a great tool if you want to use the web anonymously doesnt matter the nsa is not going to quit there going to hack it one day they have been trying for years I hope they give up something tells me thats not going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Why so many individuals trying to hack tor just leave it alone might as well its a great tool if you want to use the web anonymously doesnt matter the nsa is not going to quit there going to break it one day.Better they all try and us see, than someone sit on secret exploits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asf Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 The Tor Project, a nonprofit funded in part by the U.S. government,Oh no!! :huh: don't tell me eve that they are able to listen in to :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akaneharuka Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 I can't enter tor network right now did someone mass with it ? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 I can't enter tor network right now did someone mass with it ? :(No it still works fine maybe you're ISP blocks TOR ? Try to use a vpn then run it. it's best to use it with a vpn anyways :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 The Tor Project,a non-profit funded in part by the U.S. government. :yes: :yes: :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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