When people claim Tor is a NSA honeypot I have now a default reply: how much faith do you have in the opsec of NSA to run continuously each year with leakers li

When people claim Tor is a NSA honeypot I have now a default reply: how much faith do you have in the opsec of NSA to run continuously each year with leakers like Snowden and Manning? opsec is hard to do for dedicated security researchers. It is very hard. The difficulty of OPSEC is why I personally have faith in that the engineers for nuclear reactors are not all undercover foreign spies. Even for the most well funded organizations, doing perfect operational security for decades on end is an almost impossible task. If you also need to produce results, like if the majority Tor relay operators were all secret NSA employees, I see that as close to impossible to do for 16 years. > assume we’re never totally secure, and act accordingly That is true. Assume that at any given year NSA could be running the Tor network only to be discovered the next year. I do however doubt that they have that good opsec to have been running for 16 years, through all the leaks, and not be discovered.