Tor was not developed by the US government. Tor started as a student project of Matej Pfajfar at the University of Cambridge. Then Roger Dingledine joined in 2

Tor was not developed by the US government. Tor started as a student project of Matej Pfajfar at the University of Cambridge. Then Roger Dingledine joined in 2002, then Nick Mathewson, Mike Perry, and many, many others. The NRL was interested in onion routing and funded the project, as did DARPA, and now the State Department. For more history of onion routing and Tor, see section 5 of Systems for Anonymous Communication: http://www.syverson.org/anonsurvey-fc.pdf http://www.syverson.org/anonsurvey-fc.pdf