would know the answer.
@mario would know the answer.
It was developed by the Navy actually. Was used to help keep their secret operatives, secret, and be able to keep communication with them. Was made in the 90's by them then the source code was made public in the early 2000's, some people picked it up and started developing on it forward. EFF and a couple organizations funded their efforts, though most of the money came from the government. I doubt the government funds it as much as they used to anymore but it wouldn't surprise me if they still receive some donation.
The great thing about Tor is that it is all open source so individual actors can look at the code base and see if it has backdoors within it. Just because it was at one point a government project, it is no longer the case, even if it was still the run by the government and open source, that doesn't make it any less secure (probably more as more people would be skeptical of it, and more would be looking at the source code).
Issue comes in if when connecting to the network, all of the nodes you connect to, connect to one organization. Then that organization can track all of your actions while your connected through all of the nodes. Which is what the NSA is most likely doing at this point, in part of their domestic spying programs.
Here's a link to their history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History
It was developed by the Navy actually. Was used to help keep their secret operatives, secret, and be able to keep communication with them. Was made in the 90's by them then the source code was made public in the early 2000's, some people picked it up and started developing on it forward. EFF and a couple organizations funded their efforts, though most of the money came from the government. I doubt the government funds it as much as they used to anymore but it wouldn't surprise me if they still receive some donation.
The great thing about Tor is that it is all open source so individual actors can look at the code base and see if it has backdoors within it. Just because it was at one point a government project, it is no longer the case, even if it was still the run by the government and open source, that doesn't make it any less secure (probably more as more people would be skeptical of it, and more would be looking at the source code).
Issue comes in if when connecting to the network, all of the nodes you connect to, connect to one organization. Then that organization can track all of your actions while your connected through all of the nodes. Which is what the NSA is most likely doing at this point, in part of their domestic spying programs.
Here's a link to their history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History
Probably not their project. But I am willing to bet the own most of the nods.
Probably not their project. But I am willing to bet the own most of the nods.
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