Tuesday, 7. June 2016

FBI: Exploit that revealed Tor-enabled child porn users wasn’t malware


A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a case against Edward Matish, a man accused of downloading child pornography, should stand—preserving the defendant’s upcoming trial date. Also on Wednesday, an FBI agent explicitly denied that the "network investigative technique" (NIT) used to locate Matish and break through his Tor-enabled defenses is malware.

arstechnica.com

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