FOIA proves that TOR cooperates with governments!

https://www.rt.com/usa/420219-tor-us-government-funded-bbg/

How should we, as a community handle this.

Is using Monero and encrypting addresses enough.

The Government really wants to come down hard on these DarkNet Markets.

What are we supposed to do if the software we are using is tainted by government cooperation?

Is there anything that we can do, maybe create a TOR-like software that's not taking money from the same governments trying to bring us down.


Comments


[10 Points] kookieless:

Oh look Pravda is reporting how the tor project receives government funding, wasn’t like that was public knowledge easily accessible to the general population.


[6 Points] gangsterdam020:

As long as all the scumbag sites are still online and all the vendors who make advertisements all day are still vending, i would take this with a grain of salt, or sand like from the motherfucking beach!


[3 Points] Thx002:

lol noob doesn't know tor is a government project


[3 Points] Stupid-Noobs:

haha NOOBTUBE!


[3 Points] TreyWait:

Russia Today, first place I go to for facts.


[2 Points] CookyDough:

Tor had it's origins in the Office of Naval Research and DARPA. Just read wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997.[21][22][23]

The US State Department funds Tor every year because it helps dissidents and activists in foreign countries oppose their governments and speak anonymously online. Meanwhile the NSA and LE agencies try to compromise the tor software and the network. This is not news.


[1 Points] ForLol_Serious:

The leo government must have bought the exploit to virus all the tor updates.


[0 Points] BlackGoatSemen:

I think you've stumbled on to something big here!! Keep godown the rabbit hole and report back!!