Startup That Sells Zero-Days to Governments Is Offering $1M for Tor Hacks

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Seems morally dubious from every angle: - paying way less for what it is when you sell it to "governments", a hefty fee for a black market loop whole to sell your hacks - is any government hacking people (either citizens or foreign nationals) a good thing? - hunting "bad guys" is always the image put forth, but never the whole image

Seems rather over-priced considering a random guy was able to control 23% of the TOR network..

Reference: https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-actor-controlled-23-t...

Sounds more like a team of people that knew what they were doing.

Breaking tor anonymity isn't awfully hard - you just need lots of nodes and some luck.

Governments really want to break the encryption and see the actual contents of connections, which is why they typically prefer exploits to tor endpoints.

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