If I recall, it helped that the Snowden leaks contained slides claiming that NSA was (at the time of writing) unable to track Tor users. https://www.theguardia

If I recall, it helped that the Snowden leaks contained slides claiming that NSA was (at the time of writing) unable to track Tor users. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack-tor-network-encryption https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attac...