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Tor is funded (as in today, currently) by the US Government.

• haakon 13y ago
  This might not be a problem, see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845014
• Drew22186 13y ago
  Tor's creation was funded by the US Navy. Presumably, it was made to allow US spies in hostile foreign countries to safely communicate home to the mothership.
  • fiatmoney 13y ago
    Actually, the history is more interesting - it was intended to prototype command-and-control communications between ships in a fleet. If all of your nodes are communicating through one central server, presumably that's your flagship and the thing you should blow up. If all nodes look homogeneous, you can't determine via signals intercepts what you should be targeting.
    • bradleysmith 13y ago
      Interesting, do you have a link for that?
• dredmorbius 13y ago
  That's one of the advantages of open source security tools: even the black hats need strong security. So long as you can reasonably examine, assess, and trust the source and methods, there's no problem with this. The white hats have the added advantage that they can (generally) collaborate openly. Black hats have fewer and more constrained communications channels. Even in a regime in which personal liberties are constrained, white hats may be able to communicate openly pseudonymously or anonymously. The black hats, in order to preserve their mystique of power, and defections, _still_ generally have secrecy requirements.