[laurent92]

We need to make it strategic to hide our communications. The day the CIA decides that [place any enemy] has routers all over the place in US territory and that their spying is bad, they will mandate the use of Tor instead of discouraging it. We don’t need to be at war, but we need a capable enemy.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

I heard the balance of power argument before and, well, you were already granted this wish ( and I would argue that you had it granted twice ). Both China and Russia are very capable adversaries at this time and US is slipping from its top dog position. It is genuinely sad to watch.

[throwaway53453]

Russia isn't a threat to the US. Foreign policy maybe, but not existential like China.

[drummojg]

Russia is a terrible threat to the US. How much/many of their disinformation and memes (in the traditional sense) are correlated with disrupted political discourse, extremism, and disunity in the US? They don't sponsor squads of disinfo/misinfo actors just for giggles. It has a profound destabilizing bang for their buck.

[spacephysics]

Similar disinformation happens domestically, see russiagate

[voldacar]

Tor is not an end-all solution. Hidden services can be trivially unmasked (for an actor like the CIA/NSA) with traffic correlation attacks

[r3trohack3r]

Targeted surveillance is different than mass surveillance, different threat models call for different tools.

https://everytwoyears.org/2020/07/13/tactical-privacy.html

[mPReDiToR]

When all it takes is a quick online search for any agent to access the mass surveillance, all privacy invasion is targetable.