[meowface]

The NSA leaks reveal that for the most part, Tor is still secure if you're using a sufficient number of intermediary nodes.

If anything, the real concern here is the implicit encouragement to use local library computers, which would be much easier for a government agency (or cybercriminal) to infect with malware and observe.

[handsomeransoms]

(Securedrop dev) That's not an implicit encouragement, despite it being your interpretation. Library computers, in my experience, do not typically allow you to install software on them, such as the Tor Browser Bundle, which is needed to access SecureDrop.

The explicit encouragement that is clearly written on the landing page is to use a personal computer (not a work computer) and a public network (e.g. a coffee shop).

[meowface]

Apologies, you're completely right. I think I got that impression from something someone else said in this thread.

[Create]

“The American Library Association (ALA) opposes any use of governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of knowledge and information or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiry…ALA considers that sections of the USA PATRIOT ACT are a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.”

http://www.librarian.net/technicality.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html