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<blockquote data-quote="conceptualclarity" data-source="post: 721521" data-attributes="member: 11916">Sorry, I&#039;ve got some not so great news for Tor users.In the USA on the weekends on the cable channel C-SPAN II there is an excellent feature called Book TV which features English language nonfiction authors giving lectures about their books. I saw a lecture by Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, a lecture which is certainly colored by his rather peripheral political perspective*. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?440695-1/surveillance-valley" target="_blank">Surveillance Valley, Feb 13 2018 | Video | C-SPAN.org</a> (The transcript there covers only a small slice of the lecture.) Well into the lecture Levine mentions Tor browser. He says although people use it for privacy, the result is the opposite. The people who choose to go on Tor are watched very closely by aspects of the US government, presumably the National Security Agency. In fact Levine asserts that Tor was invented by the US government.If you&#039;re a German private citizen uninvolved in international terrorism or drug trafficking or other big crime I imagine the NSA is quite uninterested in you. After the recent abuses by the Internal Revenue Service, I do not take it for granted that US government bureaucracies will play by the rule book with US citizens such as myself.*Levine speaks as though there was something wrong with wanting to see Communist insurgencies not succeed. Considering the horrors that ensued wherever Communist insurgencies did succeed, I find his attitude to be one of willful blindness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="conceptualclarity, post: 721521, member: 11916"] Sorry, I've got some not so great news for Tor users. In the USA on the weekends on the cable channel C-SPAN II there is an excellent feature called Book TV which features English language nonfiction authors giving lectures about their books. I saw a lecture by Yasha Levine, author of [I]Surveillance Valley,[/I] a lecture which is certainly colored by his rather peripheral political perspective*. [URL='https://www.c-span.org/video/?440695-1/surveillance-valley']Surveillance Valley, Feb 13 2018 | Video | C-SPAN.org[/URL] (The transcript there covers only a small slice of the lecture.) Well into the lecture Levine mentions Tor browser. He says although people use it for privacy, the result is the opposite. The people who choose to go on Tor are watched very closely by aspects of the US government, presumably the National Security Agency. In fact Levine asserts that Tor was invented by the US government. If you're a German private citizen uninvolved in international terrorism or drug trafficking or other big crime I imagine the NSA is quite uninterested in you. After the recent abuses by the Internal Revenue Service, I do not take it for granted that US government bureaucracies will play by the rule book with US citizens such as myself. *Levine speaks as though there was something wrong with wanting to see Communist insurgencies not succeed. Considering the horrors that ensued wherever Communist insurgencies did succeed, I find his attitude to be one of willful blindness. [/QUOTE]

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