L’auteur du papier, Yasha Levine – qui prépare un bouquin sur ces histoires –, se dit victime de pressions :
Tor military contractors try to shut down my reporting
▻http://surveillancevalley.net/blog/tor-military-contractors-try-to-shutdown-my-reporting
But some people have made it their stated goal this year to stop me from doing my job. An influential group of Internet activists at the center of this year’s 32c3 event has been making bizarre threats against me, in an attempt to intimidate me into changing my mind and not reporting on what they’re up to. For the past week or so, employees of the Tor Project — a military contractor funded by the Pentagon, US State Department and various intelligence agency cutouts — have been waging a social media mob campaign to prevent me from attending. Their aim is to prevent critical independent journalism from covering their insulated (and well-funded) ecosystem. And so over the past week I’ve been subjected to all sorts of crude bullying, smears, lies and even physical threats. There’s even talk of spiking my drink and covertly drugging me at the event. Lovely stuff, all drawn from the same ol’ playbook of dirty tricks.
I’m a refugee from the Soviet Union. A few years ago, the newspaper I worked for in Moscow was shut down by Kremlin agents. So I’m no stranger to intimidation and threats, and I also know that you don’t take them lightly, because it takes a twisted mind and a twisted collective to threaten and intimidate a journalist from doing critical reporting. The Tor crowd may not be Kremlin goons — but their project is funded by the deadliest and most powerful military-intelligence apparatus in the world, so yeah, experience tells me I should take it seriously.
Regardless of any of it, they won’t stop me from doing my work.
