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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 107 points 2 days 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 23 points 1 day 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 2 points 18 hours ago

Thank you Annapolis, MD!

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days 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 50 points 2 days 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 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aren't the three letter agencies constantly bickering?

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

I love that "Sneakers" movie.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kind of wild that the government wants to kill privacy online but still funds Tor.

[–] flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 19 hours ago

That's because it's their project. Not yours.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 70 points 2 days ago

They want to kill privacy for you. Their privacy is a matter of national security.