If, as the Tor blog post insinuates, the product of the CMU research was &quot;targeted data dump to the Feds to investigate criminal activity,&quot; I could see the hand-wringing being warranted. That&#x27;s paying a university to do law enforcement work.<p>If the product was (as it seems based on public information) &quot;paper about how to attack Tor along with a couple of case studies,&quot; I really don&#x27;t see the problem.<p>The kerfuffle around the talk and paper&#x27;s release is certainly interesting in its own right, though.