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Why would the NSA fuck with a TOR developer, when the federal government contributes a great deal of TOR code and actually runs exit nodes as a matter of research?



>Why would the NSA fuck with a TOR developer,

Why wouldn't they? At the very least a TOR developer might find themselves in the same room with interesting people.

> when the federal government contributes a great deal of TOR code

The US gov isn't a single monolithic entity with a singular purpose and every person working in lock-step.

> and actually runs exit nodes as a matter of research?

I wouldn't trust a gov't run TOR node. It may be fine for dissidents in uninteresting countries, but not for anyone who wants to keep their privacy safe from the US gov't.




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