https://reason.com/blog/2016/03/02/fbi-beat-tor-anonymity-via-academic-rese
^ Was reading the above article, and it says the FBI can trace hidden services and the users that go to them. idk how creditable it since theirs a ton of DNM running perfectly fine.
Anyways your thoughts?
The FBI are essentially fighting against another part of our own government by trying to crack TOR. Our government created the Tor network to enable secure data movement to and from people around the world that needed to remain hidden for their own safety. People in heavily censored countries, people operating in an intelligence capacity, and people within the government who need secured communications when they don't have access to proper encryption hardware while not in their office are all examples of what TOR was designed and created to serve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
"The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online."
The FBI didn't get invited to the party though since they're limited to mostly domestic matters and they've been trying to throw a wrench in the works ever since the Naval brass and DoD told them to go pound sand. It's why the FBI had to pay a private entity to do their dirty work.