Knowledge gap on my part...<p>I thought Tor was suspected of being compromised, since is was originally developed by ex-government or military types? Is this the case, is Tor actually accepted as secure and free from government interference?<p>Also, I vaguely remember concerns about things like child porn being handled by exit points. Were the legal or moral concerns resolved? Or are such concerns accepted as being a thin end of the censorship wedge?
In light of this week's subject of outrage, it's important to point out that TOR doesn't protect against a global adversary sniffing traffic at a significant number of nodes and then correlating sessions.
Afaik a lot of Tor endpoints are actually run by the NSA / secret services. "If people try to use encrypted services they must seek to hide something"