Lunar:
Roger Dingledine:
Below is an initial list to get us started, along with overly brief summaries of the reality underlying the myth. Please contribute more entries!
- "I heard the Navy wrote Tor originally (so how can we trust it)." - "I heard the NSA runs half the exit relays." - "I heard Tor is slow." - "I heard Tor gets most of its money from the US government." - "I heard 80% of Tor is bad people." - "I heard Tor is broken."
- "If I use Tor, I'll be put under surveillance."
(This one got amplified by the XKEYSCORE source code leaks some times ago.)
I think this is also a good opportunity to respond to some of the random hate Tor gets from the infosec bros (specially on twitter). - "I've heard using Tor makes me more vulnerable on the internet. / I've heard it's not secure to use Tor" - People still ask whether they might get MiTM by the exit node when they use .onion. -- Nima 0X58C4B928A3E218F6 | @mrphs "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" --Evelyn Beatrice Hall