Moles inside the NSA.... ...................................... Tor Projects Executive Director Andrew Lewman suspects that insiders from the National Security Agency (NSA) and its UK counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have secretly been sending vulnerability alerts to his staff. Some of the alerts dont merely identify the bugs in the source code. They even pointed out the flaws that needed some bigger design decisions and had suggested bug fixes in complex details. Lewman also claims that the anonymous web network Tor receives these tips almost on a monthly basis. As the tips would usually point out subtle bugs in the network, he has deduced that the people behind all these are those who are involved in intelligence work. Their purpose is to contravene their co-intelligence workers and help Tor fix those issues which could otherwise be exploited by agents coming from other companies. You have to think, who are the type of people whod be able to do this and have the expertise and the time to basically read Tor source code from scratch for hours, for weeks, for months and elucidate these super subtle bugs or other things that you probably dont see in commercial software, said Lewman. We always have a grain of salt there where we think - are they trying to figure out a bug to exploit or are they actually trying to leak to us, adds Lewman. techtimes/articles/13858/20140824/nsa-gchq-spies-help-tor-project-seal-system-from-fellow-spies.htm
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:23:07 +0000
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