The Tor Project would very much like to know how identities were laid bare in the recent Operation Onymous.
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Operation Onymous: 17-nation bust takes out over 400 “hidden services”
It turns out that last week’s bust of Silk Road 2.0’s kingpin was just a hint at what was coming: namely, a multinational crackdown on dark-market sites hidden away on the Tor network. 
FBI’s warrantless ‘hack’ of Silk Road was legal, prosecutors claim
Even if FBI agents did hack their way into the Silk Road without a warrant – and they’re most certainly not confessing to that, mind you – the intrusion would have been an upstanding, law-abiding, Fourth Amendment-respecting act of criminal investigation, the government argued in a Monday court filing. 
Tor users could be FBI’s main target if legal power grab succeeds
The US Department of Justice is proposing a power grab that would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to break into computers of people trying to protect their anonymity via Tor or other anonymizing technologies. 
FBI used drive-by downloads to track child porn suspects hidden on Tor
The FBI has been silently installing spyware in its quest to identify and prosecute criminals hiding behind the powerful Tor anonymity system. The technique’s a classic tool in the malware writer’s kit. Do the ends justify the means when it’s the law, using it to capture child abusers? 
Tor attack may have unmasked anonymous users
Two Carnegie-Mellon researchers had planned a highly anticipated talk at next week’s Black Hat security conference – a talk that was cancelled when the university’s lawyers freaked out – about how easy it is to break Tor anonymity. They’re innocent until proved guilty, but The Tor Project says it was likely the two researchers are behind the attack. 
Tor Project is NOT getting sued for enabling revenge porn site PinkMeth
A Texas revenge-porn victim is suing the operators of revenge-porn site PinkMeth.com and was (until her lawyer figured out just what, exactly, the anonymising service Tor actually is) suing The Tor Project for helping PinkMeth to operate anonymously. 
Latest OpenSSL flaws can lead to information leakage, code execution and DoS
Only two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL captured global headlines we have another critical update for OpenSSL fixing 6 new flaws.