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Wikipedia: “The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul
by AJ007 7y ago
Wikipedia: “The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online.“
Recently, many or all of the US’s agents in China were captured and executed:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
This is why things like mandating Apple, Google, et al use breakable encryption is extremely bad. Anyone who follows information security knows Apple struggles to keep up with 0 day exploits.
My opinion is that it is both in the interest of the United States government and all human-rights abiding democratically elected states to have as absolutely secure and anonymous communications systems as possible. I’m not the only one who believes this. In fact, I think this is very very much a CIA vs FBI situation, domestically. Is it really worth exchanging knowing what was on some dead nut jobs iPhone for the ability of government officials, the military, business executives (e.g. Jeff Bezos apparent breach by Israeli assisted Saudis), and every day common citizens to communicate securely?
- turk73 7y agoEven when Tor was new I had my doubts about it due to its origins among other factors. My dissertation was on privacy technologies in that era (early '00s). I covered a lot of ground at the time. The most sinister change in information technology is cloud and the fact that you have no 4th Amendment protections for anything stored there. Our laws simply aren't keeping up. But it was a neat trick to get everyone using cloud and then pulling the rug out of privacy by say "oh, and by the way, since the files aren't on your property, you have no legal protections for them."
- 420codebro 7y agoGood points. RE CIA v. FBI - I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a loose handshake that they (CIA/NSA/FBI) will allow Tor (benefits CIA), in exchange for technical assistance in investigations (benefits FBI) -- namely the ability to own an endpoint. Don't need to own the service/protocol if I can own the host it is running on.
- heavenlyblue 7y ago>> dead nut jobs iPhone I think the principle here is that the same dead nut will simply cease using iPhones the moment they become insecure.