U.S. Government’s Role in Developing and Open‑Sourcing Tor, and Its Ongoing Use by Intelligence Agencies
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The passage outlines how U.S. agencies (DARPA, Naval Research Lab, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA) created and later open‑sourced Tor, suggesting a deliberate strategy to mask intelligence operations. While the f DARPA and Naval Research Lab helped develop Tor for covert intelligence use. State Department, NSF, and Broadcasting Board of Governors funded Tor’s core development and open‑so CIA, DIA, and FBI con
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