An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington could face both civil and criminal penalties for a research project (pdf) in which they snooped on users of the Tor anonymous proxy network.... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Thu, Jul 24 2008
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