CEO of Company Behind Tor Browser Exploit: "I Wanted to Help Take a Person Down"

In November of last year, a law enforcement agency deployed a Tor Browser exploit on a dark web child abuse site. Sources told Motherboard that the company which developed and sold the exploit was Exodus Intelligence, a US firm that also sold information about the attack to defensive clients.

Now, Logan Brown, the company's president and CEO, has elaborated on why Exodus provided the exploit. His comments give a glimpse into the dynamics of the hacking marketplace; especially relevant when investigators are increasingly turning to hacking tools to identify criminals who use anonymity technology.

"I wanted to help take a person down," Brown said during a recent Mozilla and Stanford Center for Internet and Society panel on government hacking, a video of which was posted on YouTube on Saturday.