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Anyone using TOR for security or anonymity has a screw loose. Without a for-profit model for hosting nodes we can assume the whole network is being controlled by just a few interested actors.

It might be useful when you have your own 3 hosted nodes.

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I deliberately bleed my own money and energy to run a Tor node to help other people gain freedom of information. Small scale, but proof that your absolute statement is not grounded in reality.

You don't need to run every node to control the network, only most.

> You don't need to run every node to control the network, only most.

I guess it depends what you mean by _most_. We operate 8 relays, so you can exclude 8 more from your _most_ and make of that what you will...

There are some 6,000+ relays active so even in the most minimal interpretation of "most" that's ~3,000 short of most. Or subtracting the 8 specified if one considers them trusted that's somewhere around ~3,000 (i.e. it doesn't help you make out anything you couldn't have made out before).

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