Yes Signal, Tor etc all initially funded by US government and are nothing more than spy tools for the unsuspecting. Yes
ANOM is just tip of iceberg. Bitcoin is probably another of their secret creations btw to get people used to using blockchain technology
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eh, I mean that doesn't really mean anything, and although I dislike the US and it's foreign policy, but the US Army was and still is the forefront of most inventions simply because their budget allowed them to, look at
DARPA for example and their projects like
ARPANET (the earliest predecessor of the Internet) or GPS and dozens of other projects, and you will find that we all use these inventions today thanks to them.
Today the US military is going to buy
120k Hololens based headset from Microsoft for about 21 billion dollars over 10 years, and because of this, we will have Augmented reality (AR) technology faster in the commercial world and we will learn more about this technology because of them, so the military is basically a research center for Microsoft, and because of them, Microsoft would be able to develop their technology and profit at the same time. So, yeah, it's natural that a lot of technology that came and still coming is going to be from the US military.
that doesn't mean the TOR or any privacy tool is flawless, nothing is. it just depends on your threat level and your OPSEC.
Tor has it's use cases, but also has it's issues, for example, the most well known issue is
malicious Exit nodes, but t
heir are also ways to avoid them.
even if BTC is made by the US military, thanks to them, we have monero now, the perfect (for now, unless something better come), fungible, private coin.
So, nothing in this world is black and white, everything has it's use cases, it just depends on why you need it and how you're gonna use it.