• emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Is TOR not completely owned by the feds? I remember even back in the silk road days people were saying the FBI owns every endpoint. Is TOR still practical? I truly don’t know I’m asking for input.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 minutes ago

      In this scenario it wouldn’t matter because the idea is to use it as a way to access a website that would otherwise be accessed over clearnet but has become inaccessible. But if they made an onion site endpoints wouldn’t be used anyway afaik since the traffic doesn’t leave the network.

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      59 minutes ago

      If enough people set endpoints, then the feds will own a fewer proportion of the total. AKA: we have to be the change we want to see in the world.

      • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        56 minutes ago

        Yeah but even if you could get it down to like 50% why would anyone want to take that risk? Idk I might be misunderstanding something about how TOR works but it seems no more anonymous than the clearweb from what I’ve heard.