[Spy-funded privacy tools (like Signal and Tor) are not going to protect us from President Trump | Surveillance Valley — Yasha Levine](https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privacy-tools-are-not-going-to-protect-us-from-president-trump)
"The reason is simple, and can’t be repeated often enough: most of today’s “grassroots” privacy technology pushed by privacy activists like Lee and Snowden were created and continue to be controlled by the very same U.S. military-intelligence apparatus these apps are supposed to shield us from. I’m talking about the Pentagon (including the NSA), the State Department and several CIA spinoff outfits that had been covertly set up during the Cold War. In short, these tools are a part of the very same state apparatus that will in just a few months be under the control of President Donald Trump."
@gutigen at a certain level you're right, another example is SELinux made by NSA.
the problem is that they're using technology to further they're pseudo-freedom agenda.
and let's not forget about things like this [The Ken Thompson Hack](http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack)
CPUs with IME etc
these are all backdoors.
@ovigia If technology is sound and well vetted by #foss communities and #security researchers from all over the world, then I don't see the problem, especially in case of Tor since even US aparatus needs a healthy Tor network to get lost in it when needed.
Let's not dismiss technology only because it comes from a police state, there can still be use for it.