Security is necessary but not sufficient
> “Why bother?” seems apt given the good range of secure messaging tools on offer these days.
If security were all Tor cared about, then the Tor browser project would have been shut down when HTTPS became mainstream.
No, the goal of the Tor project is to provide anonymity for the user. This is a much harder problem than just implementing end-to-end encryption on top of a centralised service. It requires not sharing, or leaking, any metadata to any party not directly involved a communication.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
