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Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year

posted by janrinok on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long,-farewell,-auf-weidersehen,-goodbye dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Shari Steele is resigning her position as the director of the Tor Project, according to a report by Cyberscoop. Steele will remain director through December 31st, and the search for her replacement is still underway.

[...] For many, Steele's directorship, which started in December 2015, signaled a sea change within the organization and shifted Tor towards being more inclusive and community focused.

[...] "I had intended to retire after my time with EFF, but I believed strongly in the Tor Project's mission, and I felt I could help," Steele wrote in a blog post after the news broke. "I look at the Tor Project organization today and feel quite confident that we've got the talent and the structure to continue to support the organization's great work."

Source: The Verge

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  • (Score: 2) by fishybell on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)

    by fishybell (3156) on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:45PM (#643065)

    *dons tinfoil hat*

    ...then again, the huge uptick could have been the real mechanism that was used by the FBI to find the real IP address of the Silk Road. Instead of leaked data from a CAPTCHA or PHP information linkage, they instead set up a huge amount Tor relays and clients to statistically determine the real IP address.

    *doffs tinfoil hat*

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:22PM (#643133)

    That doesn't seem like a tinfoil hat type scenario, I would say that sounds incredibly plausible and a reasonable course of action for them to take. Not a conspiracy level thing where people get murdered for finding out about it.