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Tor 'dark web' router head implicates GCHQ and NSA in bug-fixing scandal

on Aug 22, 2014 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The director of ‘dark web’ anonymity router ‘Tor’ has claimed that its programmers receive sophisticated bug reports from agents within the NSA and GCHQ, in order to keep the service functioning.

Andrew Lewman, head of Tor’s operations, alleged that supposedly rogue elements of the UK and US government agencies were tipping the company off to programming flaws, to keep the utility, which allows users to anonymously access hidden sites, functioning.

Lewman told the BBC: “There are plenty of people in both organisations who can anonymously leak data to us to say – maybe you should look here, maybe you should look at Read full story ›

Source: The Drum