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It’s literally funded and made by the NSA. Dissidents and activists have been busted using Tor and there’s always a friendly government damage control agent re
by MintelIE 6y ago
It’s literally funded and made by the NSA.
Dissidents and activists have been busted using Tor and there’s always a friendly government damage control agent ready to pop up (any forum, any time of day) to remind people that Tor couldn’t possibly be backdoored or owned, it was always some other type of thing they used in parallel construction.
Over-shilling is what clued next in. You don’t get this kind of response without a massive panopticon dispatching reputation managers. Why the heck would the NSA write NSA proof software? LOL.
EDIT: this is in reply to mapgrep and his crew:
Did I say I won't use Tor Browser? Is it really necessary to put words into my mouth to make your point? I've noticed this a lot with people who are very very lightning fast, almost unbelievably fast, to defend Tor on any forum or platform on the Internet. The speed at which it occurs, and the typical over-the-top, rude, and unnecessary attempts to make people seem to say things they 100% have not.
You should apologize. Obviously the NSA has broken Tor, they made it. Forget about current funding, where'd it originate?
And why does the Tor Project publish a list of exit nodes?
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoWhy do you trust literally any secure comms code?
- MintelIE 6y agoDid you stop beating your girlfriend yet? Same question, different pose.
- mapgrep 6y agoThe fact that the US government, largely through Open Technology Fund, originally an arm off the State Department (via Radio Free Asia!), has arguably done more to fund core internet privacy technologies than the private sector is an indictment of the private sector, not of the U.S. government. We should absolutely be aware of funding sources, skeptical of code written by other people, etc, but if you were to actually enforce in your life a position that you won’t use any security or privacy technology with funding ties to the USG you will quickly find yourself in quite an untenable position.
- pfundstein 6y agoAES which is the encryption standard for asymmetric crypto and used everywhere (including by the gubment) was designed by the NSA. So what's your point?
- dependenttypes 6y ago> is the encryption standard Some others (such as chacha20) are pretty popular too. This is the only cipher used by wireguard and one of the ciphers used by ssh and tls. > was designed by the NSA No it was not. It was designed by two Belgian cryptographers (the same ones that did SHA3). > for asymmetric crypto Symmetric No offence but you seem quite clueless.
- pfundstein 6y agoFair enough, but my point against the tinfoil hattery still stands; Just because the gubment was involved with it's inception doesn't mean it has backdoors.