Regular users aren’t very good at keeping things secret. It has also been put towards all sorts of illegal activity – online criminal syndicates, child pornography, terrorism networks, drug cartels (notably the now-defunct Silk Road), and even the shady end of police departments are accessible through Tor. Tor is used by hackers in Mexico to combat drug cartels. It is because of Tor that you are aware of the death tolls and atrocities in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan it is through Tor that civilian video in Syria gets uploaded to LiveLeak. Tor was designed, apparently, to protect communication between political dissidents, and to allow everyday users to avoid location-based snooping. Events like 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings mean that, for some, the NSA’s operations are a perfectly appropriate and necessary part of the modern state.īut other users - assuming something similar to the NSA was already in operation - have developed networks like Tor to protect against surveillance. Thanks to journalists such as Glenn Greenwald, the details of the NSA are fast becoming a matter of public record. If you are electronically within three degrees of separation from anyone who has travelled through the US, then you’re under assessment. It’s frightening because none of us can effectively do anything about being automatically captured by the covert surveillance of NSA’s PRISM infrastructure. You can be sure Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are doing their best to make money from your online activities.įormer NSA employee Edward Snowden recently revealed some of the operations of the US security apparatus, and the extent of their data capture is – to put it mildly – frightening. Many companies track your patterns of movement online.
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