On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:09:08AM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
The US government benefits greatly from dissidents in North Korea, China, Russia, Japan, and Germany being able to effectively use Tor to exfiltrate business intelligence and leak it to the people that run this country, the campaign contributors.
Sorry, but I don't believe this. I agree with juan that tor has many bugs and quite likely is _heavily_ backdoored, the bugs we see are probably just the top of the iceberg. I suppose sufficiently many people got busted because of trusting tor naively. The usa profits more from sniffing tor traffic than your alleged dissidents IMHO. Also some of the Snowden docs suggest "NSA can monitor tor, but don't want to scare _all_ tor users" (almost literally quoted).