NSA assistance: online anonymity.

• Author: Evans, Zenon
• Position: Citings - National Security Agency - Brief article

The Tor Project offers software that allows people to cover their tracks on the Internet. Because of this, some officials in the National Security Agency (NSA) really dislike Tor. So it may come as a surprise that a Tor executive says some NSA agents are helping the project.

Andrew Lewman, who handles operations for the Internet-anonymizer tool, claims that he receives tip-offs on "probably [a] monthly" basis that he believes come from the NSA and its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters.

"There are plenty of people in both organizations who can anonymously leak data to us to say--maybe you...