Infosec 2014: EU cybercrime head blames TOR for making it difficult to catch criminals

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Tools used to access the "deep web", Bitcoin and Edward Snowden blamed by European cyber-crime fighters

Troels Oerting, the head of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), has blamed the "darknet" for making it difficult to catch cyber-criminals in his keynote speech to Infosecurity Europe in London. ...

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