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Tor is not for criminals. It's for you and me. No. Tor is for the CIA. It won't work for them unless we use it as well. Criminals also find it useful. It's ea
by btilly 3mo ago
Tor is not for criminals. It's for you and me.
No. Tor is for the CIA. It won't work for them unless we use it as well. Criminals also find it useful.
It's easy to verify this. Tor was originally written by Paul Syverson, Michael G. Reed, and David Goldschlag. While all three were working at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
- jupr 3mo agoThese are the origins of Tor yes. The same technology that protects the spy, protects the journalist, or the citizen whose government blocked them, or placed a wall of ID verification checks. I encourage everyone to learn about the origins. Even study these people and what they have said in the past. Don't for get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mathewson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mathewson.
- bflesch 3mo agoNah, those people use plaintext Gmail as Epstein demonstrated.
- dredmorbius 3mo agoThat depends entirely on their perceived vulnerability. Actors who feel they have little vulnerability --- that they can act with immunity or impunity --- regardless of the validity of that assessment, can and will act overtly. Those who feel they are in a hostile or vulnerable environment will seek to conceal their actions and communications, and practice strong tradecraft. Epstein (incorrectly as it happens) presumed impunity. His (mostly) unidicted co-conspirators have thus far been shown correct in their similar presumptions.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoYes, that's what it was created for. The internet was created by DARPA and happened to be useful for other things