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Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy (cyberinsider.com)
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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 111 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The TOR project in it's entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications. It's public because no matter how secure, if only spies use TOR, then it would be easy to catch them.

I don't mean to imply that TOR is insecure, it's open source and the Government has an interest that it be secure. But if you're going to annoy the US government, you better have good opsec because they understand TOR better than anyone.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The TOR project in it’s entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications.

NSA actually... no, wait, USNRL... not even a 3-letter agency... bizarre.

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you Annapolis, MD!

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's just wrong but sure

There's plenty of defcon talks given by the tor developers and Americas / fbis attempt to shut them down

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 53 points 2 weeks ago

That's just bureaucracy in general. Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, until it receives an after action report, signed in triplicate, two months after that knowledge stopped being useful.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Aren't the three letter agencies constantly bickering?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

I love that "Sneakers" movie.