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Just the simple fact that Tor was started with a bunch of US intelligence money is cause for concern.

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You don’t trust the US Government? Good. But the beauty of open-source projects like Tor, Signal, 7Zip, etc is that you don’t need to trust them.

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The only thing scarier than the fact that the government may be listening in is the fact that any entity can listen in.

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Keep in mine not everyone uses TOR to evade the three letter agencies. I’m a TOR relay operator and the main reason I’m running it is to give people in oppressive regimes a better chance at exchanging free information. To these people getting spied on by western intelligence agencies is probably the lesser evil compared to their own tinpot dictatorship governments.

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