Technologists working on security tools outside the U.S. warn that a major change to their funding could mean catastrophe.

The attacks comes as the Tor Project is trying to enhance trust in the anonymity browser.

The accused man, Daniel Hale, worked as a Leidos contractor for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2013-14, began communicating with the reporter in 2013 while at the NSA.

Roughly 2 million people worldwide use the Tor browser everyday. New leadership wants to turn those users into its donor base.

Although there has long been a slate of third-party mobile Tor apps, the official app is now slated to be released in early 2019.

Silk Road shuttered in October 2013 after a high-profile FBI investigation ended with the arrest of Ross Ulbricht who is now serving a double life sentence in American prison.