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Tor Project sees decline in server numbers, offers rewards for new bridge operators
(blog.torproject.org)
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2021
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Misinformation. Tor Project is not aimed at aiding sponsored colour revolutions. DARPA funding evidently does not mean anything, just like NSA creating SELinux for Linux kernel does not mean SELinux is backdoored, or for that matter ghidra disassembler tool.
Not saying Tor is backdoored, or that it can’t be used for good.
What are you trying to imply then?
Just to make it clear, I am not downvoting you. However, it seems you are commenting about a side effect of the article's topic, which seems not the best thing to say, as it hurts a lot more people than some colour revolution pro imperialists. Think of the Snowdens or Assanges that do not operate as a big public entity.
I understand your point. Mine was that the primary use case of Tor is more intended for the outlined scenario.
It’s biggest funders are regime change cut-outs, just see: https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors
For activists, it’s probably best to use Tor on top of some other VPN...
Or the other option is to not add extra trust layer entity called VPN, and instead pick your exit nodes and have your data filter via DNSSEC enabled no log DNSes with countries of your choice.
Or, you could actually use E2EE communication via Tor, since no exit node matters in that case. Either of the clients would have to be compromised in that case, since the decryption happens locally with E2EE.
VPN + Tor setup has been called out on too many times at this point.