Do spies and other secret agents use Tor?<p>I've always assumed it was developed mainly for them to use, because a US government VPN would be too obvious.<p>If Tor wasn't public then a could just say, look, there's a US spy at this IP because they're the only person using onion routing.<p>These are it's weaknesses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknesses" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknes...</a><p>Also I think Harvard caught a student who reported a bomb threat over Tor, but was caught because there was only one student using Tor on the Harvard network at the time, oops.<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-bomb-threat-2013-12" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...</a>