Tor dev here! We're super excited about this launch!<p>The lead dev on this feature, who also wrote the blog post, is taking some well deserved r&r after getting this feature out the door. I was somewhat tangentially involved (I work on the Shadow simulator, which we used to test, evaluate, and tune this feature) but can take a stab at answering questions.<p>Otoh comments on the blog post itself are likely to be seen by more experienced tor devs than myself :)
Isn’t Tor at this point widely suspected to be compromised by state actors? Aren’t people who use Tor for nefarious purposes arrested regularly these days?