I already know that it was made for military purposes, but when they were the only one using it all the traffic was easily observed as their own making tor useless for them unless there was more activity on TOR-network other than themselves.
So they released it as open source. Now top developers are continuing the maintenance of it voluntarily.
I already know that it was made for military purposes, but when they were the only one using it all the traffic was easily observed as their own making tor useless for them unless there was more activity on TOR-network other than themselves.
So they released it as open source. Now top developers are continuing the maintenance of it voluntarily.
More on that here: https://2019.www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en