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yes, why do people use Tor if it's well known that it's been hacked by multiple governments for a long time?

• wolverine876 3y ago
  It depends on the threat you are trying to mitigate. If it's commercial surveillance, then Tor makes some sense.
• timbit42 3y ago
  Where is this proof?
• adr1an 3y ago
  I used it plenty at the University to access research articles (sci hub). There are other use cases that go beyond the usual stuff that government try to monitor by serving exit nodes, or doing correlation attacks. Anyway, even if you were a terrorist, using your would be better than not using it. There are probably other solutions that they implement, sure.
• DANmode 3y ago
  Because the protocol isn't the issue. Lately, it's been surreptitiously fingerprinting or exploiting their Firefox fork, timing attacks (if you can see metadata all of the packets in the country or world, they can take as many hops as you choose, someone and or something can still easily line them up), or other op-sec screwups (controversial, because what is reporterd as fatal OpSec flaws can just as easily be parallel construction finding something that would look or sound blatantly obvious in retrospect).
• gray_charger 3y ago
  If you're not doing anything that affects national security they won't bother burning that capability on you. They save action only for those they can take action against in a clandestine way (so the fact they can crack Tor is not on public record), or against someone so dangerous they need to act quickly for national security reasons (and a government acting quickly with overwhelming force is hard to keep secret).