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Funded by the government != The government has their hands all over it
by heartsucker 9y ago
Funded by the government != The government has their hands all over it
- gambiting 9y agoEven TOR was originally a government funded project
- aluhut 9y agoEven "the Internet" was originally a government funded project
- akerro 9y agoand yeah, currently Internet is a spying tool of USA.
- idlewords 9y agoIt's a spying tool for American corporations far more than it is one for the government.
- CaptSpify 9y agoIt's a spying tool for American corporations which is very convenient for the government
- frostymarvelous 9y agoAnd TOR is no longer (was it before, I don't know) a secure tool.
- openasocket 9y agoIt still gets a large portion of its funding from the USG
- sndean 9y agoAnd there's lots of Tor posters hung up at USG labs (e.g., https://www.torservers.net/wiki/_media/tor-relay-poster.resized.jpg https://www.torservers.net/wiki/_media/tor-relay-poster.resi...). I was pretty surprised, at first
- openasocket 9y agoTor has probably saved more than a few CIA agents' lives, not to mention free access to the Internet being a powerful tool for undermining authoritarian regimes.
- WillyOnWheels 9y ago> Tor has probably saved more than a few CIA agents' lives Tor's main purpose is to allow agents of US intelligence agencies to communicate back with the home base. "Giving free access to the Internet being a powerful tool for undermining authoritarian regimes" makes it harder for an adversary to focus solely on intelligence agency agent traffic. I'm not saying Tor is backdoored or monitored, though it's heavily monitored. When enjoying the benefits of Tor, it's wise to also remember Tor's main purpose.
- mattnewton 9y agoExactly, the government is extremely large and not all the NSA. Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what all the thousands of right hands are doing and can't possibly care.
- caf 9y agoTo some extent that's even true within the NSA.
- duxup 9y agoThe internet is a government conspiracy!
- zdkl 9y agoThe government is a government conspiracy! ...wait.
- aeorgnoieang 9y agoThere's a crazy logic to this that I appreciate.