Tor’s been an integral part of EFF’s “Surveillance Self-Defense” privacy toolkit.
It was supposed to be the best tool out there. For the past decade, they had been promoting Tor as a scrappy but extremely effective grassroots technology that can protect journalists, dissidents and whistleblowers from powerful government forces that want to track their every move online. Internet privacy activists and organizations reacted to the news with shock. They had obtained leaked top secret NSA documents and source code showing that the surveillance agency had targeted and potentially penetrated the Tor Network, a widely used privacy tool considered to be the holy grail of online anonymity. In early July, hacker Jacob Appelbaum and two other security experts published a blockbuster story in conjunction with the German press. Roger Dingledine, co-founder of the Tor Network, 2004 Because then every time a connection came from it people would say, “Oh, it’s another CIA agent.” If those are the only people using the network.” “The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. Privacy Spooks: Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government
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