imagining that the US Navy project Tor isn't compromised
didn't even pay attention to the ancient Snowden leaks of how the NSA compromises Tor on a regular basis
There were a couple of court cases back from around 2017 I believe where the FBI basically dropped a bust against a big ring of pedophiles rather than reveal their methods in discovery.
So we'll never really know what those compromises looked like. The FBI has used boring javascript exploits in the past (around 2013 I believe) that don't really break Tor but just got the targeted suspect to leak their address. In that case they were fine revealing their methods. Maybe they have something and would rather keep secret for parallel construction purposes. Did they get this from NSA/CIA so they can't reveal it even on big , non national security cases? Is it targeted or useful for mass surveilance? Guess we don't know, but my guess is it isn't actually generally usable for non-targeted surveillance against the protocol itself.
Yeah I have no idea what the FBI used for that. The NSA used to use brute force exploits on Tor by owning so many relay and exit nodes. If they got lucky and a user only bounces to their relay nodes and no other nodes then they own them. I think tor put in some mediation for that, but who knows.
Use Tor my nigga.