Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget
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I've been using it since the early days and ran relays and exits. It's good for anonymity against your ISP, advertisers and lesser adversaries than being targeted by TLAs. Can be a bit slow. Make sure to use encryption to protect against bad exit nodes.
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I used to use it. I used it to buy Xanax and it was bad times but the tor and Darknet market aspect was fine.
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There is a strong suspicion that the TOR network has been turned into a NSA honeypot by virtue of the NSA running more than half of the TOR exit nodes. Do you really want to take that chance?
Not to mention, pretty much the only thing most honest people use TOR for is to defeat geoblocking, and most geoblocked sites of any importance blacklist TOR exit nodes. So it's not even that useful.
Evidence for your claims, please.
Here's a video referring to OPs opinion that the tor network is compromised.
Not proof, but reasonable explanation for why people believe this to be the case.
https://youtu.be/pvBAaUPzvBQ
I said suspicion, not evidence. The suspicion arises when you try to answer the following 2 basic questions:
Or put another way, apart from a few idealists like the Calyx Institute, nobody in their right mind would foot the bill to run servers mostly used by hackers and pedos. Therefore, the most likely operators are law enforcement and nefarious barely-constitutional three-letter agencies.
Idk if the NSA runs all those exit nodes but this is definitely not the first time I've heard that it isn't secure. Luckily I have nothing to hide so I use Google for everything and send them a daily summary of my offline activities in case they missed anything.
Were you aware the USGov created it?
DARPA, specifically...