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Comment by donohoe | Hacker News Reader

  Tor is again of the US intelligence

Thats news to me. I remember hearing some rumor that turned out to be completely baseless. Are you referring to that or something else?

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The program was originally developed by the US Navy to help them protect their own communications, as part of their onion routing project: http://www.onion-router.net/ I have no idea what kind of involvement they have right now, but if a 'backdoor' was introduced by the US Government (I assume this is what conspiracy-theorists are scared of), people would know about it. After all, Tor is open source.

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