Yasha Levine
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| Born | February 23, 1981 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Berkeley |
| Parents | Boris Levine, Nellie Levine, |
| Children | 1 |
| Interests | Tor, Internet/Surveillance |
Journalist with suspicions about Tor | |
Yasha Levine is a journalist who wrote the book Surveillance Valley.[1]
Activities
He wrote for Pando Daily in 2014/15;[2] during that time he started to harass people connected to the campaign to free Barrett Brown from prison.[3]
In February 2018 Levine has released e-mail communication received through FOIA dating back to 2007 from Tor founder Roger Dingledine to his contacts at the Broadcasting Board of Governors about a technical problem concerning TLS connections which made Tor traffic stand out from all the rest and made it easy to fingerprint and single out people who were using Tor from the background data noise of the internet.[4] According to Levine it took years for the Torproject to communicate the problem through their official channels.
References
- ↑ https://www.oif.ala.org/book-review-surveillance-valley-the-secret-military-history-of-the-internet/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150718064142/http://pando.com/author/ylevine/
- ↑ Police and Media: Intersecting Surveillance Black Liberation Media YT channel (Mar 7, 2022), starting ca 00:56:00
- ↑ https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/claim-tor-does-not-provide-backdoors-to-the-u-s-government