Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity
Metacommentary:<p>I've taken a jaundiced view of "liberation tech" efforts in the past and this is as good an illustration as any of why. Among "amateur" libtech projects, Tor is about as good as you get --- an active community, extremely widespread use, technical people with their heads screwed on right and as much humility as you can reasonably expect of people whose projects are (candidly) intended to thwart world governments.<p>If Tor can't provide meaningful assurances (here, there's a subtext that Tor actually made NSA's job <i>easier</i>), you'd need an awfully convincing reason for how you're going to do better than they are before  "liberating" the Chinese internet, especially given that it your users who assume the real risks.