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By running a Tor node, one helps dissidents / spy assets in Russia get information / communicate with handlers in Ukraine, USA, etc. -- Which is the reason for Tor's existence in the first place. If one is into supporting that kind of thing of course, but defense of Ukraine seems pretty popular in the US

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Pft, 100% this was developed by a three letter agency in the US.

It's not even a secret, look at the Tor Project's funding sources (public tax record). State Dept & DoD were their primary funders last time I checked.

Hypothetically, if the USG wanted to produce "official" backdoored TOR clients (e.g. only served as prebuilt downloads to IPs geolocated in Iran, etc to make detection difficult), they are in an excellent position to influence that work. And as the story of Julian Assange makes clear, that should concern anyone who purports to care about privacy, human rights, etc.

Lazy comment - Navy has 4 letters.

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