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by berkes 696 days ago
Tor is (was?) heavily subsidised by secret services in a.o. the US.

> likewise, agencies within the U.S. government variously fund Tor (the U.S. State Department, the National Science Foundation, and – through the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which itself partially funded Tor until October 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28network%29?wprov=sfla1
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toofy 696 days ago
While it has had funding from some sources we don’t necessarily trust, it’s still entirely open source and the code has been combed through repeatedly.

When it comes to privacy apps, I’d place significantly more trust in something like that than literally anything closed source or unscrutinized to that degree.

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berkes 696 days ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that we should not trust it.

I was merely implying that there's a major difference between the model behind TOR and that of Firefox.

And also similarities: if TOR is funded by entitities we don't trust and it turns out to work fine, then Firefox, being "funded" by Google should not have to be a severe problem either.

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