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Russia Offers 4 Million Rubles to Crack the Tor Network. Tor logo used with permission. Image remixed by Kevin Rothrock. The Russian government is offering almost 4 million rubles (about USD $100,000) to anyone who can devise a reliable way to decrypt data sent over the Tor anonymity network. A mounting campaign by the Kremlin against the open Internet, not to mention revelations in the United States about government spying, have made Tor increasingly attractive to Russian Internet users seeking to circumvent state censorship. Tor has encountered problems in Russia before. Indeed, the country’s principal security agency, the FSB, lobbied the Duma last year to ban Tor.

Russian Pirate Party leader Stanislav Sharikov says the Russian government’s renewed interest in cracking Tor might have more to do with genuine police concerns than political repression. Of course, Tor is a “dual-use” technology. The U.S. government cites precisely these worrying uses of Tor when justifying its own efforts to decrypt users’ data. The_Story_Of_Civilization : Will_Durant. The Lessons of History Audiobook | Will, Ariel Durant. Courses. Liberty Classroom | The history and economics they didn't teach you. What Was the American Revolution All About?