OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation
This research addresses security and transparency concerns for users and organizations relying on the TOR network, but it is incremental as it builds on existing OSINT methods without new technical breakthroughs.
The study analyzed the TOR Foundation and Network using open-source intelligence, revealing that the US government is heavily involved in its finances and development, and that unknown individuals operate critical nodes without disclosure by the foundation.
This research paper is a study on the TOR Foundation and the TOR Network. Due to the blind confidence over this network and this foundation we have collect data and gather information in open sources to understand how it is organized. We discovered that the US government is very active through the financial aspect and development aspect. Furthermore, we discovered that some critical points of the TOR network are running by unknown people who have special nodes and the foundations never talks about them.