![]() Since the US law enforcement, government and intelligence agencies and armed forces sometimes require anonymity for their communication, too (that's why Tor was birthed, after all), diversification of the Tor user base would be something they'd be interested in, and that can't be achieved by keeping Tor use limited to US government agencies. ![]() So if you use Tor, it might be because you want to buy illegal drugs, but it might also be because you're a whistleblower or a human rights activist, or simply worried about your privacy on the internet. You will also not have to worry about being flagged by your home network for using Tor, as all that network will see is encrypted traffic to your VPN server. So by making it public and encouraging a wide variety of people from all walks of life to set up exit nodes and use Tor as a client, it becomes possible to hide in the mass of people who use Tor. Someone who noticed traffic from a Tor exit node would immediately know that someone from that research lab was behind the requests. If the "government" (or rather, the united states naval research lab) was the only one to use Tor, then obviously they wouldn't gain any anonymity. There are certainly a lot of reasons which we could speculate about, but one is fact and inherent in the way Tor works to provide anonymity to its users: Since its founding, Tor has expanded its offerings to include tools that help non-technical users access the network relatively easily, such as the Tor browser.
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