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		aleph_minus_one 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024... It is suspected that Signal was originally financed by the CIA: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/signal-faci...

prophesi 6 months ago [–]

Wasn't TOR originally funded by the CIA as well?

hollerith 6 months ago | [–]

No, the Naval Research Laboratory. The Navy wanted to give its researchers and strategists a way to look stuff up on the web without anyone's being able to see what they were looking up.

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