There are a variety of other things that are incorrect in your post too.

this post is titled 'Is Tor safe from the US government', so respectfully, you are wrong. Respectfully this has nothing with to do with US.

I encourage you to take a look at the hundreds of published attacks on Tor to learn more: Tor can be a useful tool, if you understand its limitations. Not only can they still intercept your traffic, but often people do even stupider shit than they normally would because they now think they are safe. They can hide their agent's identities, while simultaneously lulling their enemies into a false sense of security by making them incorrectly believe their internet traffic is anonymous. Meanwhile, they do have access to this surveillance network and so can easily deanonymize yours. *You* most likely cannot de-anonymize a CIA agent's Tor traffic easily, because you do not have access to the global mass surveillance network required to do so. But don't get fooled into thinking it is at all effective against the US government.Īs far as the 'well the CIA uses it so it must be secure!' argument, this is nonsense. If you're trying to hide your identity from some random website, Tor can be helpful. In addition to this there are many other attacks that don't even require this sort of global intercept capability, ranging from design flaws in the Tor protocol itself, to side-channel attacks that exploit weaknesses in the platform Tor is running on. There are dozens of published attacks that demonstrate that Tor is insecure against this sort of adversary, going back more than a decade (see for example Approximating a Global Passive Adversary Against Tor). Global passive adversaries (organizations like the NSA or large telecoms that have the capability to intercept traffic on the majority of the internet) can easily deanonymize Tor traffic.

No, Tor cannot protect you from the US government.

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