Anyone that knows anything knew the bolded is bullshit and tor has been compromised for years. Of course I think it's accepted that only the Bad guys need to worry about that, IOW because the NSA cannot come out in court and say "Yup we busted you cause tor is compromised" that it is safe enough if you are not doing something really bad and if you are they have special courts for you and you will not have the rights to demand the proof against you anyway.
AFA the funding, so what The navy wrote the software in the first place this is well known.
Well I mean there is compromised and there is COMPROMISED. Sort of like how there is a difference between "we can expend some resources and figure out a users activity if we need to" and "we have a searchable database cataloging all user activity on this network".
We all knew that they could attack it by running tons of nodes and doing timing analysis and stuff like that. Maybe they occasionally found other vulnerabilities and exploits maybe those got patched maybe quickly maybe not so quickly. But I think it's an altogether different thing to learn that the entire operation is funded from top to bottom by the deep state. And I also think there is a difference between the original software being developed by the navy vs the orginal software being developed by the navy + the deep state is still funding nearly all of it's development to this day.
Basically I'm trying to make the case that this is a meaningful revelation that tells us some things that we might have speculated about but didn't know before and that how ever much we trusted tor before (like you said about useful scenarios) we should trust it less now.
I can't fault that logic, but I thought it was well known they control over 1/3 the nodes and there is a date that you should check (I forgot what it is) to use only nodes created before that point for security. I2p I believe is a real grassroots reply to tors breach. But for all we know it's black Op funded as well. 3 Letter agencies need ways to communicate secretly as well, even from the other 3 letter agencies.
Hell Cryptonote was probably a 3 letter employee or 2 that did it on the gov's dime with consent, perfect way to push it out to the world too in a easily identified scamcoin.
SHUM
Oh god you're gross man. I had to look that up. Ew.
Not sure I want to know what you were looking up, but
Should Have Used Monero apparently wasn't what you found
No. No it was not. I figured it out but I still blame aminorex for making me try to look it up.
SHIT, Afraid to Google Shum now, lets see how long I can hold out. And I just blame aminorex for everything, it makes things easier!
NOT caught up yet (threads) and out of time so I'll just ask. HAS there been a Proven ASIC sighting or is it all just conjecture still?
