Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor

Posted by golergka on Thursday July 24, 2014 @08:24AM
from the self-post dept.

I don't think that there are articles in proper news sources about this yet. Here is the guy who found it:

http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4739669.html

And here's the call for bids on the government website:

http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/zkk44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0373100088714000008

The task reads as "research possibility of obtaining technical information about users (user equipment) of anonymous network Thor". It offers 3,9 million rubles (about $100k) for the task.

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by Alex-Galapagos on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:00AM (#8079908)

As one of they guys on here (http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4739669.html) noticed, it's funny that the government organization is using email for contact: [email protected] . Yandex is a free service like Yahoo! in US. Let's put it this way, FSB has its own hacker group (called "Otdel K", you can read about it here: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%EF%F0%E0%E2%EB%E5%ED%E8%E5_... Use Translator since there's no English version) and wouldn't need to publish this kind of ad publicly.

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by tete on Thursday July 24, 2014 @09:02AM (#8079369)

Tor you mean? (not Thor)

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by afarrell on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:31AM (#8080075)

Russian does not have either "th" phoneme. I would have been more amused if they'd called it "Luke".

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by Grue3 on Thursday July 24, 2014 @10:01AM (#8079588)

In Russian both are written in the same way (Тор).

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by bnolsen on Thursday July 24, 2014 @09:03AM (#8079372)

that should be Tor not Thor. Fun, eh?

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by dang on Thursday July 24, 2014 @10:31PM (#8083520)

The fun's over.

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by MisterBastahrd on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:33AM (#8080091)

Thor? Marvel beat you to it. Thor's gonna be a woman.

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Re:Russian government calls for bids to hack Tor by golergka on Thursday July 24, 2014 @03:29PM (#8081619)

Well, that's just embarrassing.

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