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Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)

Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)

Posted Oct 6, 2013 4:03 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian) by renox
Parent article: Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity (The Guardian)

> That's funny: I remember arguing that using Tor against governments which can monitor networks is shouting "look at me, I have something to hide".

This isn't a unreasonable sentiment considering that the majority of Tor Project's funding comes from the U.S. Department of Defense (which NSA's parent organization) and the U.S. State Department.

https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2012-TorProject-F...

Of course the DoD funds a great many huge number of things, much of it completely innocent. Just something to keep in mind, I guess.

It's good that it's open source so it's feasible to dismiss suspicions.


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