A presentation on a low-budget method for exposing a popular online privacy tool to users, TOR, will not be held at the Black Hat security conference.
According to legal counsel for Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute, materials from researcher Alexander Volynkin were not approved for publication, according to a notice on the conference website.
It is rare, but not unheard of, for a presentation at Black Hat to be canceled. It is unclear why Volynkin's presentation was canceled.
Volynkin is a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and was scheduled to give a talk at the conference taking place in Las Vegas on August 6-7, titled: "You Don't Have to be the NSA to Break Tor: De-anonymizing Users on a Budget."
