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I think they publicized it so they could obscurely use it for military purposes. The users are easy to spot if they are all military users. Get tons and tons
by daft_pink 1y ago
I think they publicized it so they could obscurely use it for military purposes. The users are easy to spot if they are all military users. Get tons and tons of regular users to use it and you obscure who is trying to hide.
- esseph 1y agoThis is exactly it from what I have heard. I have heard this from a large number of trustworthy sources over the years.
- schoen 1y agoI think we have to distinguish between "the Navy proposed using it this way for this reason" (clearly they did, in writing!) and "the government actively uses it this way for this reason" (extremely hard to confirm). I've met law enforcement people who talked about using Tor for anonymity during investigations, but in context they were looking for anonymity on the exit side rather than the entry side (so, a traditional VPN would have worked too). The original proposal about onion routing is focused on the security provided on the entry side (preventing local telecommunications operators from knowing whom you're communicating with).
- esseph 1y agoThe claim is that allows State Department, CIA, and NSA officials to communicate from remote regions with anonymity.
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- matthewdgreen 1y agoIt's unclear if they really did this, or if this was just the pitch they gave to the government. But it was never secret that this was a goal they had explained to the US government: the inventors were pretty straightforward about everything.
- fishgoesblub 1y agoI've also read this at some point. Bit hard to have deniability if you're hacking into $ENEMY_COUNTRY servers using a network that only the US Government has access to.