Tor Browser Exposed: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale
Tor is not, nor has it ever been, trustworthy. Hell, you can still try active deanonymization for youself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miserlou&#x2F;Detour" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miserlou&#x2F;Detour</a><p>This didn&#x27;t used to be a problem, as it was essentially run as a sandbox project for the academic anonymity community. It was very up front about its capabilities and limitations.<p>Unfortunately, in recent years, the US government has been bankrolling more &quot;privacy&quot; software development through its propaganda arms (OTF, RFA, etc.), and the Snowden revelations have led private foundations to follow suit.<p>As such, the organization doubled down on rebranding to be a &quot;human rights&quot; _tool_, as this is what grant giving organizations love to promote (free speech in Iran, activist publishing, etc.) This combined with a overly-enthusiastic do-gooders gaining more and more prominence in the Tor organization has led to the dangerous situation of promoting inherently insecure software as a security solution to vulnerable people. This is a general problem in the scene (remember when those activists in South America got vanned for using CryptoCat?) - and one that I&#x27;ve been guilty of myself in the past.<p>I really hope the new boards steers them back to the academic realm and slaps a big red USE AT YOUR OWN RISK warning on the tin. Unfortunately, I think the opposite will happen.