It wouldn't matter where funding came from if the basic algorithms used for encryption as well as the rest of Tor source are sound and audited. Are there any past, present or future efforts to audit Tor?<p>The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen even if Tor hadn't received any funding from any govt. Any darknet <i>has</i> to be hot target for govt infiltration and subversion and Tor is not an exception. If you're planning to do something highly illegal, think if you need to do it at all. Do not assume a few hops through a few machines means you'll forever be out of reach of concerted attempts at finding you.
Dupe of a dupe: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501330" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501330</a><p>-> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501630" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501630</a>
This shouldn’t be shocking at all. (I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Satoshi Nakamoto is an NSA front.)<p>The US has been involved in ‘election meddling’ and regime change forever, and building tools to help activists destabilize governments is part of that.<p>That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.