That's what the Eff-folks advocating TOR are saying. And point to a file on Torproject.org. See: http://cryptome.org/0003/tor-spy.htm However, this appears to be a giant evasion perhaps asubterfuge, even reminds of what Big Boys say when customers learn they are siphoning customer data. Read the privacy policy the lawyer-advised apologists bark, and upon reading the privacy policy see that it only emphasizes the subterfuge. Openly admitting siphoning is supposed to make it okay because everyone does it under cover of lockstep privacy policy. Fuck that. If the Tor operators really know what they are being used for, then they should admit to being agents of the USG, as Michael Reed had the guts to do. Claiming this US spying role for Tor is well known is a crock of shit, but then spies lie all the time and care not a whit that they peddle shit for eaters of it. If you believe them and like what they do then don't shilly-shally, just do what Michael Reed did but others are too ashamed to do after having been duped since 1996. If Reed's precedent for honesty is followed, there will be an admission that the Internet was invented for spying by its inventor. And then cryptography and other comsec tools. And then cellphones and the like. Hold on now, this is getting out of hand, the apologists will bellow, everybody has always known that there is no privacy in digital world. Actually, no, they did not. And those who knew keep their fucking mouths shut to reap the rewards of deception. Now that is a truth everyone knows. No conspiracy theory needed.