Notably they want it more widely used because it's really not useful if the only people that connect to Tor are spies. Makes finding spies super easy ("X connected to Tor. Okay, let's go arrest X"). How do you prevent that? Doesn't take a genius to figure that out...
Similarly, CIA/Navy/whatever doesn't want their tools to have zero-days. You might think "zero-days for me, but not for thee" but come on... we all know that doesn't work. If there's an exploit, the exploit works for anyone. You may have an edge in knowing where to look, but you're not going to maintain that edge for long. Worse, good luck finding out if someone else finds out. How do you prevent adversaries from exploiting your tools? Doesn't take a genius to figure that out...
I really hate these conspiracies. Like come on. Yeah, we should be highly critical of US spy agencies and apply a lot of scrutiny. But not everything they touch results in a landmine. They aren't all powerful gods. And they're up against some serious adversaries like China, Russia, and yes, Israel, and the most important one of them all... themselves! Spooks are spooks. They don't trust their neighbors, they don't trust themselves.
And if they were omniscient, surely they'd know the very first rule of security: if there's a backdoor, somebody will find it at the least conveniently possible time.
In a statement, WikiLeaks indicated that the initial stockpile it put online was part of a broader collection of nearly 9,000 files that would be posted over time describing code developed in secret by the CIA to steal data from a range of targets. WikiLeaks said it redacted lists of CIA surveillance targets, though it said they included targets and machines in Latin America, Europe and the United States.
Similarly, CIA/Navy/whatever doesn't want their tools to have zero-days. You might think "zero-days for me, but not for thee" but come on... we all know that doesn't work. If there's an exploit, the exploit works for anyone. You may have an edge in knowing where to look, but you're not going to maintain that edge for long. Worse, good luck finding out if someone else finds out. How do you prevent adversaries from exploiting your tools? Doesn't take a genius to figure that out...
I really hate these conspiracies. Like come on. Yeah, we should be highly critical of US spy agencies and apply a lot of scrutiny. But not everything they touch results in a landmine. They aren't all powerful gods. And they're up against some serious adversaries like China, Russia, and yes, Israel, and the most important one of them all... themselves! Spooks are spooks. They don't trust their neighbors, they don't trust themselves.
And if they were omniscient, surely they'd know the very first rule of security: if there's a backdoor, somebody will find it at the least conveniently possible time.