The non-profit Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying the security researchers of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered that could help them…
…Unmask Tor users as well as Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation.
As evidence, the Tor Project points to the cyber attack that it discovered last year in July.
The team discovered more than hundred new Tor relays that modified Tor protocol headers to track people who were looking for Hidden Services – web servers hosted on Tor that offers more privacy.