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Am I wrong to assume that Tor is effectively a US government project at this point? It may allow people to bypass local internet controls (in some cases includi
by unregistereddev 3y ago
Am I wrong to assume that Tor is effectively a US government project at this point? It may allow people to bypass local internet controls (in some cases including government-imposed internet controls), but I would assume it is not truly anonymous.
- thefascistleft 3y ago[dead]
- naniwaduni 3y ago"At this point"? It was always a US military/intelligence project, it just happened to be useful for their purposes to launder their traffic by making it available to civilians. It's never exactly been a secret, and the project has seen a fair amount of scrutiny for this fact.
- jowea 3y agoYes but isn't the previous poster more concerned about ownership of the infrastructure that IIRC might allow to identify users and not of the code base which is openly linked to the US government?
- ls612 3y agoThe government uses TOR itself so it has some incentive to both operate infrastructure and also try to make sure it actually delivers on its anonymity claims. If they screw that last part up, their HUMINT sources die.
- throwme222 3y agoThere was a contract from US government to develop the software that is now known as Tor. That was 20 years ago. The project has been ran in the open by a non profit ever since. No doubt the US agents still use the network but saying it's a "US military/intelligence project" at this point is silly.
- flembat 3y agoAn interesting test would be for no one at all to make a donation..
- throwme222 3y ago[dead]
- halJordan 3y agoYes you are wrong.