[tor-project] Help brainstorm Tor myths

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Fri Jul 7 08:24:24 UTC 2017


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.)

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Lunar                                             <lunar at torproject.org>
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