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The military needs, or needed, Tor to be functioning and anonymous for their own use, correct?
by Pigo 7y ago
The military needs, or needed, Tor to be functioning and anonymous for their own use, correct?
- Diederich 7y agoThat was the purpose of the initial DARPA grants funding Tor.
- strictnein 7y agoTor was created to help dissidents of other nations communicate. The military does not run on Tor.
- cronix 7y ago> Tor was created to help dissidents of other nations communicate [1] Why would the US Navy develop something to help dissidents in other nations? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Histor... > 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. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997
- ohithereyou 7y agoIt's also designed for dissidents in countries that are either opponents or rivals of the US: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Brazil, and Venezuela. It allowed for pro-US dissidents and agents to stay unidentifiable to these nations while distributing pro-US messages.
- dsl 7y ago> Why would the US Navy develop something to help dissidents in other nations? From their website: "The [Naval Research Laboratory] works closely with the National Security Agency (NSA), Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)."
- cronix 7y agoThose are US gov't agencies, not "dissidents in other nations."
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago>Why would the US Navy develop something to help dissidents in other nations? Seriously? USA's notorious for not wanting to influence the destiny or politics of other countries, eh. /s
- strictnein 7y agoCongrats on pulling up a wikipedia article. You are now an expert.
- cronix 7y agoNot an expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just capable of doing the most basic of research, which is something you probably should have done before commenting.
- Pigo 7y agoI think the confusion here is some of us were talking about Tor as in "the onion router" as a protocol and some were talking about The Tor Project software. Who knows if government agencies use the tor project, or have their own specialized version. The only reason I asked was because I've heard that government agencies need Tor because it's in their best interest to have channels for anonymity (again, not giving an opinion on whether it's good or bad, just a fact). So if methods for breaking that anonymity arise, I'd imagine it's a concern for them as much as any dissident out there.
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- searcher1 7y agoThe military and intelligence needs use of Tor to be functioning and anonymous more than they need hidden services to be functioning and anonymous. The unknown "investigation" technique in this article is about deanonymizing hidden services, not individual Tor users (at least not directly, they used the discovery of the hidden services to send an exploit which has been publicly identified to individual users).
- jascii 7y agoThat seems fairly trivial considering he was in the business of renting out webspace.