So if you've been following Tor closely for years, you've presumably decided you don't trust Roger Dingledine? I say this partly as an appeal to his authority

So if you've been following Tor closely for years, you've presumably decided you don't trust Roger Dingledine? I say this partly as an appeal to his authority (which I'll argue is not insignificant), but I don't mean it in an aggressive way. I don't know him personally, and I can't say very precisely how much trust I have in his claims. With that said, he's claimed that he personally knows a substantial number of relay operators by volume, and there is significant pressure from certain levels of the US executive branch on the Tor Project to either compromise or abandon development of the Tor network in order to stop child porn. Of course, he could be entirely unaware that the relay operators he knows are compromised or are simply federal agents, or he could be himself. But I think these, among other pieces of information, must be contended with to develop a theory that tor is entirely compromised. For instance, there are claims that people within the intelligence community use and rely on tor for their own work.