Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you Annapolis, MD!

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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    • shininghero@pawb.social ⁨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.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Aren’t the three letter agencies constantly bickering?

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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