So what are the (geo)political consequences of having widely distributed pieces of software like Tor, Signal and others being mostly funded by US Gov and the CIA (through RFA -> OTF)?..

These questions are asked openly in this article by Y. Lavine (to take with a grain of salt, like all the rest indeed...)

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine

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The Crypto-Keepers | Yasha Levine

If apps like Signal really posed a threat to the NSA’s surveillance power, why would the U.S. government continue to fund them?

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