someone posted this saying "tor isn't effective". Tore them a new one and explained how each failure point is only worst-case.

This picture doesn't even show that Tor is ineffective, but how effective it is:
Nobody (except the user) knows everything.

So what you're saying is:

hacker is sitting inside my network and can see everything I do.

NSA controls tor

Thanks, glad we solved this one!

The only thing you really have to worry about is the two NSA mans in the middle fucking you with a temporal correlation attack

@Nato
Yes, and they can do.
For public nodes are announced, clients are not.

Dude I can sketch up a diagram showing how there's a very finite number of undersea comms cables which can be sabotaged fairly easily and say "The Internet isn't effective/secure"

@12bitfloat this isn't even effective most of the time either

@mvelebit pretty sure there was an entire Metal Gear game where that was the plan.

So is the issue of using the same primes for cryptography still an issue? Or did they fix that when they updated all the crypto stuff a while back? Like most software didn't change the primes so it required a modest investment by the NSA to be able to monitor everything that used those primes.