The management at Hacking Team alleged that their unmasking was done by a nation - wide : but if the company specifically sold its servers to just about any country , why would a client take them down ? The answer may lie in this 404 page powerpoint which lays out HT 's plans for infiltration the Tor Network : indeed one of the company 's products claims that it has already managed to break the anonymity of users . Whilst TOR is full of the world 's nastier sites and is accessible to most of the world 's cyber - criminals , it is also funded in a large part by the US military .
The management at Hacking Team alleged that their unmasking was done by a nation-state: but if the company specifically sold its product to just about any country, why would a client take them down? The answer may lie in this 54 page powerpoint which sets out HT's plans for infiltration the Tor Network: indeed one of the company's products claims that it has already managed to break the anonymity of TOR. Whilst TOR is full of the world's nastier sites and is home to most of the world's cyber-criminals, it is also funded in a large part by the US military.