Selena Larson says, “Attendees of the Black Hat security conference were looking forward to finding out next month how the average person can identify people using Tor, a browser that masks the identity of users so people can do things like buy and sell drugs online and communicate privately without fear of people intercepting their chats and emails.

But lawyers from Carnegie Mellon University, where the researchers work, requested that Black Hat pull the talk,Reuters reported. The speakers are researchers at the university.

The talk was titled “You Don’t Have To Be the NSA to Break Tor: De-Anonymizing Users on a Budget.””.

Researchers Won’t Reveal How To Break Tor’s Anonymous Web Browsing

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