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 U.S. 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.