Re: [tor-project] Help brainstorm Tor myths

Lunar:

Roger Dingledine:

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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.