The Feds (at least those that I met) fundamentally disagree with me on many subjects - the role that researchers, academics, and common citizens take in studying, criticizing and pointing out the flaws in our security systems. I have been laying the groundwork for some Tor <http://tor.eff.org> related research at Indiana University (pending approval from the University Counsel) - in fact, two of Tor's designers are visiting researchers at IU this year. It was made perfectly clear during the meeting that parts of the US government, at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others <http://proxy.org/tor.shtml> have no business supporting such projects.
University of Indiana graduate student Stephen Soghoian, against whom
the U.S. Government considered filing criminal charges stemming from an
airline boarding pass generator that he posted on-line, in the 28
November 2006 entry of his weblog,/ slight paranoia
<http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/>,/ comments among other things, on
the attitude of federal investigators toward the Tor project:
- Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward ... George W. Maschke
- Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitude... Jonathan D. Proulx
- Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Atti... Michael Holstein
- Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't ... Jonathan D. Proulx
- Appeal for class-action lawsuit aga... Enigma
- Re: Appeal for class-action law... Paul Syverson
- Re: Appeal for class-actio... Enigma
- Re: Appeal for class-actio... GeorgeDS
- Media campaign against... Enigma
- Re: Media campaign... Jorge Daza GarcĂa-Blanes