Tor is used by many different groups of people, but it unfairly gets a bad rap because most people associate Tor with its criminal associations – the Dark Web, Silk Road, drug dealers, assassins for hire, and the like. It is now under relentless attack from agencies such as the US’s National Security Agency, and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in a bid to crack it. Its original aim was to protect internet users’ privacy from corporations, which is ironic considering that today the purpose of Tor has done a total 180 degrees and is now used to protect people from the government, the very entity that funded Tor in the first place! Needless to say, the US Government is now not a fan of Tor, as it has taken on a life of its own, and law enforcement find themselves frustrated by encrypted criminal activity. It therefore got a lot of its funding from the US Government, but it eventually had other financial backers such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tor was launched in 2002 and was originally developed by the US Navy.

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