What if TAILS, tor, and all these services are actually just created by the NSA themselves to always know what's going on..I heard the NSA had a hand in creating windows 7, how can you even know something is truly "open source".. thoughts?
Conspiracy theroy
What if TAILS, tor, and all these services are actually just created by the NSA themselves to always know what's going on..I heard the NSA had a hand in creating windows 7, how can you even know something is truly "open source".. thoughts?
[4 Points] justmyanonaccount:
[2 Points] diOpAnonMu:
Wait until OP figures out where Tor was started.
[1 Points] CocaineNose:
i'll have what he's having
[1 Points] None:
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It's open source if you can download the sourcecode, read through it and or modify it as you please and then compile it on your own. Which is exactly what you can do with TAILS. Sure there is a risk of someone commiting code to the project that intentionally opens a backdoor, but there are teams of people seeking out exploits and then reporting them so they can be fixed in future distributions.
TOR certainly has NSA and other surveillance organizations hosting exit nodes and logging data, but that's why you want to make sure everything is encrypted end to end i.e. check that all your logins are https, use pgp, etc. The fact of the matter is, and to use a common analogy, you often don't have to "outrun the bear" but instead don't be the slowest runner. LE isn't going to put in the tremendous man hours it would take just to hack/honeypot DNM's just to bust a bunch of personal drug users or low level dealers (they're looking for massive terror plots, international espionage, kiddie porn, murder, and all that other scary and violent business that threatens the state) but even if they wanted to get super petty and lock up all these college kids getting drugs in the mail, we use PGP and tor, and all the state of the art OPSEC to make their jobs that much more difficult and increase the likelihood that they find an easier catch somewhere along the way.
We already know the NSA is collecting and processing/monitoring pretty much anything done on the clearnet so even if my (encrypted) shit gets logged every once in awhile on some TOR exit node, I've still lowered my overall exposure as a result of using TOR. If I was trying to do some serious anarchy/revolution shit or become a multi-million dollar vendor I might be a little more concerned, but again, neither of those two things are any safer to attempt IRL or on the clearnet so you work with what you got.