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Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship

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Wait, TailsOS wasn't created by the Tor project?
- According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)
  Tails was first released on June 23, 2009. It is the next iteration of development on Incognito, a discontinued Gentoo-based Linux distribution.[9] The original project was called Amnesia. The operating system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito.[10] The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings of the project.[8] Tails also received funding from the Open Technology Fund, Mozilla, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.[11]
  
  Open Technology Fund
  Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.
  For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).
  Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.
- Yes, now, anyway…
  
  I feel like anyone could have seen this coming, if anything im surprised it didn't happen sooner
Tor and Tails merge to support western intelligence
- Unsourced claims like this do absolutely no good to anyone, ever. Which means that either right before typing this comment, you though to yourself "time to be a bad person for no good reason" or you're a shill for some surveillance agency with an interest in scaring people away from privacy enhancing solutions.
  
  Well, it is a little weird that Tor was originally a military technology funded by the US Department of Defense. Also, privacy in these days is really hard to achieve.
- Please explain
  
  OP is a conspiracy nut who doesn't understand cryptography, know how to read C code, or know how to differentiate experts in these things from misinformation about these things.

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