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How much do you believe what this book (by Yasha Levine, writer for Wired, New York Observer, etc) states — that Tor is funded by the CIA and has backdoors?

https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...

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It is 100% false that Tor was funded by the CIA. However, it is a very well documented fact that Tor was initially funded by the US Naval Research Laboratory, which also has a mandate for international intelligence gathering. Get your organizations right.

It's very... problematic. And Yasha clearly displays a lack of knowledge (or is knowingly lying) by making the claim that the Tor Project is tipping of the US government to vulnerabilities. Here is why: https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/03/askrob-does-tor-let-gover...

Some more Yasha stuff: https://micahflee.com/2014/12/fact-checking-pandos-smears-ag...

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