Tor Browser Security Audit

This implies the browser is pretty sold, but what about the network itself? How do we know all of the traffic isn&#x27;t deanonymized due to a big company or government having control of a large number of nodes?<p>Apologies for not bothering to research this question in advance.

If I were the CIA, I would want to run a bunch of Tor nodes just to snoop on people.<p>Of course, if I were the KGB, or MI-6, or the Chinese State Security Ministry, or the DGSI, etc., then I would be doing the same thing.<p>Assuming that&#x27;s true (and it may not be), I&#x27;m curious how much security would be compromised with many different adversaries instead of just one adversary.<p>Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Why does Tor Browser still insist on phoning SecureDrop on startup? (Older versions used to phone Firefox servers too but that has been fixed.)

Can just anybody still run an exit node?