[zenography]

Journalists, whistle blowers, people in oppressive countries, unjustly censored information, the government, etc.

The Navy didn't Tor for criminals, so obviously there is a use case beyond that.

[yters]

Maybe the Navy is using Tor to trap criminals.

[KnMn]

If that's the case they've enabled a whole lot of criminal activity to trap relatively very few criminals so far.

[yters]

The Navy originally invented the protocol for clandestine communication.

One of the contractors who wrote the software later open sourced it.