The anonymity service has been open source since its public release in , and it transitioned to being overseen by a nonprofit, dubbed the Tor Project, in It can seem confusing at first that the US government would fund the creation of a tool that has since been used by criminals and foreign governments to conduct secret operations. But the US government can benefit from using the anonymity service in the same way these groups do.
Still, stories and investigations abound about Tor's origins, including one persistent rumor that the CIA funded Tor's creation through covert channels. The Tor Project says that it has always been transparent about its funding sources and that it has no past or present connection to the CIA.
The CIA could have ulterior motives for establishing an onion site, but perhaps the agency is in fact simply trying to offer more ways for people to contact it and interact with its public resources.
If nothing else, the project's tagline pokes fun at its inherent ambiguity: "Onions have layers, so do we. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. November 11, No Comments. Excerpt: Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. November 9, No Comments. Excerpt: Gods and Dragons by Kevin J. November 8, No Comments.
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The need for tools safeguarding against mass surveillance became a mainstream concern thanks to the Snowden revelations in Not only was Tor instrumental to Snowden's whistleblowing, but content of the documents also upheld assurances that, at that time, Tor could not be cracked. People's awareness of tracking, surveillance, and censorship may have increased, but so has the prevalence of these hindrances to internet freedom.
Today, the network has thousands of relays run by volunteers and millions of users worldwide. And it is this diversity that keeps Tor users safe. We, at the Tor Project, fight every day for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become the world's strongest tool for privacy and freedom online.
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