Thank you - I spelled it “TOR” because it’s “The Onion Router” but I just checked and saw that it’s now spelled “Tor” on its own project site (www.torproject.org) - my bad. (Edit: But back then, it was the “TOR project” and it was spelled “TOR” at that time. And I was used to spell it like that. Not sure if this tells you how long ago this is.)
I didn’t mean to say that, I meant to say that at some time the NSA controlled a noticeable part of the Tor network and was trying to gain as much control over it as they possibly could. It’s old info, only hints & claims now, if I had any evidence to prove this at some time in the past, I’d probably be in Russia now…
Anyway, I used Tor back then (for a short time) only to add some noise to the traffic and not because I had some threat model that would hint to Tor as a possible (or even the best) solution and after finding the (again: old) info mentioned above, I lost interest in it because it created disadvantages without any benefit for me (and it was slow). Obviously things have changed since then and you know more about it than I did and do.
So - I’m out now.