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Google should run Tor? Yeah, that's an interesting idea, if you want to get rid of that annoying build in anonymity in tor which is its main purpose?

• chaxor 3y ago
  It's mostly navy run right now is my understanding, and used by journalists, so I don't see how it's that much of a downgrade.
  • ZeroZeroOneZero 3y ago
    It was started by the Navy way back in the '90s for secure communication online. Then the source was released like a year after being made public and development was funded by the EFF until the Tor Project itself was officially founded. They still do (or did?) get grants from a few federal agencies though. But they had no strings attached. This is probably what you're thinking of. Source: Hung out with a few Tor devs in Berlin a few years back. Including He Who Shall Not Be Named.
    • botanical 3y ago
      I think they meant it's believed that most/some exit nodes are run by US intelligence to spy on people. Not that development has anything to do with them now.