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partial impartiality

"An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the National Security Agency (NSA) characterized Tor as "the King of high secure, low latency Internet anonymity" with "no contenders for the throne in waiting"."

"As of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2M annual budget came from the United States government,"

hahaha. oh dear.

Commonwealth

In the section Third party, the following is stated:

United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and British Commonwealth countries

Since the first three are part of the British Commonwealth, either this is redundant or the part about British Commonwealth countries means something other than what is normally assumed. Should is just as "and other British Commonwealth..." or should someone clarify what the intent of the statement is.99.245.230.104 (talk) 04:52, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted PAPARouter --it smells of self-serving WP:OR. kencf0618 (talk) 05:21, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mailtor

@Philg88: I removed this section about mailtor. Specific hidden services like that (even the notable ones) aren't really covered here as just one service people use on top of Tor, rather than an implementation. The AfD furthermore was closed as redirect, not merge, and only because it was mentioned elsewhere by the page creator -- not because it's notable (and in fact the sources you carried over are all pretty unreliable). --— Rhododendrites ^talk | 18:45, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

History of Tor

Levine, Yasha (16 July 2014). "Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government". PandoDaily. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

This source gives a history of Tor and could be used to develop this article. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mild inaccurate lead

The article contains Tor encrypts the original data, including the destination IP address, multiple times... which is not accurate. The payload data is encrypted with the final destination code described, and then the result is re-packaged and re-encrypted with the next destination node address so that there are nested encryption constructs, the text reads as if the destination payload is encrypted multiple times without routing instructions being added at each layer.

I suppose it does not matter, people looking for more technical aspects of Tor will go to the official Tor web site and download the specifics. Still, it's inaccurate. Does anyone care to propose better text? Damotclese (talk) 21:39, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]