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Re:Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or... by middleclick on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:49AM (#8623156)
> It is a well-known fact that Tor is controlled by FBI.

Citation please.

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Re:Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or... by Privatoria on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:14AM (#8623552)
certainly Tor is a great service. Dut due to it's popularity it is very inetersting for FBI. So they are making an effort to deanonymize service.For example, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/11/07/how-did-l...
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Re:Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or... by Karunamon on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:17AM (#8624146)
due to it's popularity it is very inetersting for FBI. So they are making an effort to deanonymize service.

Is a completely separate and much weaker claim than:

It is a well-known fact that Tor is controlled by FBI

No kidding they're trying to deanonymize it. The NSA is no doubt working on breaking GPG, that hardly means they own it!

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Re:Large Number of Tor Sites Seized by the FBI were Clone or... by simoncion on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:36AM (#8623971)
Honestly, it would run counter to the FBI's interest to not divulge flaws that invalidate the anonymity guarantees that tor provides. Tor was originally developed to mask the identity of USian spooks performing intelligence operations and will continue to be used in that role for the foreseeable future. [0]

Like any FBI spokesman would say, things that make it harder for law enforcement to engage in surreptitious observation of targets endanger us all.[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610532

[1] NB: I neither agree with nor endorse this claim that is all-too-often made.

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