@dcc Yes, some glowers originally developed it for their own usage, but they decided to release it as free software and let other people improve it for them.

A different group of glowers do not like this at all, as thanks to Tor, they have great difficulties, even impossibilities spying on the online activities of Tor users.

The security of Tor's design has been well researched and has been found to not contain a backdoored.


i2p has more of a focus on in-network routing, rather than exiting to the clearnet and the security of its routing mechanisms has been researched a lot less.

Why yes I run a Tor, i2p and GNUnet relay.