Re: [tor-project] Help brainstorm Tor myths

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.)