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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by kibwen on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:19AM (#34413425)
Tor was developed by the US Navy. The military understands how crucial encrypted messaging is, and doesn't particularly care whether or not it's a dagger through the heart of other TLAs. In a bureaucratic battle between the military and domestic intelligence agencies, the military wins.
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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by cheese_van on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:49AM (#34413920)
And additionally funded by the US State Department to provide anonymity for users seeking political expression in countries where that expression may be dangerous.
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Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:06AM (#34414199)
The State dept happily encouraged the use of broken cryptography machines in the past. They don't have a clean record on transparency.
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