[GeorgeOrr]

They actually saw it as their job to make the experience of anyone using Tor difficult.

Isn't that kind of like the police deciding to make the roads full of potholes because that would make it more difficult for bank robbers to get away in a car.

Then again, considering the quality of the roads these days, maybe they are way ahead of me on that.

[revelation]

They are doing this all the time. They are buying exploits and keep them locked up, they actively backdoor software and hardware.

Basic statistics tells us it is pure insanity to compromise our security for the noise that is "international terror".

[agilebyte]

Police have to use the same roads. The presentation leads me to believe that they do not want to scare people away from Tor, so they can track at least some users, but probably/obviously have their own network/servers for anonymous connection that will not be impacted.

Otherwise yes, it seems stupid to make Tor unusable as a whole.