My guess is that this was a cover-up exercise by the bad guys. Know your history folks. Let's not forget why Tor was created in the first place, and, indeed, who continues to fund it today...
Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory began to develop Tor in 1995, in order to anonymise military and intelligence traffic. If used exclusively by undercover agents, the system would be vulnerable to attack; thus, to allow agents to hide in plain sight, it was opened up to the public, and in 2004, the project was handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Despite this, to this day, Tor continues to receive the bulk of its funding from the US government (in 2013, of the $2.4 million received in total annual expenses, Tor received more than $1.8 million from the US government).
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shivers123 ago
My guess is that this was a cover-up exercise by the bad guys. Know your history folks. Let's not forget why Tor was created in the first place, and, indeed, who continues to fund it today...
Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory began to develop Tor in 1995, in order to anonymise military and intelligence traffic. If used exclusively by undercover agents, the system would be vulnerable to attack; thus, to allow agents to hide in plain sight, it was opened up to the public, and in 2004, the project was handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Despite this, to this day, Tor continues to receive the bulk of its funding from the US government (in 2013, of the $2.4 million received in total annual expenses, Tor received more than $1.8 million from the US government).
This article lays out other contentious info about CIA involvement: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
V____Z ago
"The hackers also claim child pornography made up more than half the data stored on the servers."
convenient. bet the porn was connected to Alefantis, Podesta and Brock.