The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has called Tor "the king of high-secure, low-latency Internet anonymity", and BusinessWeek magazine has described it as "perhaps the most effective means of defeating the online surveillance efforts of intelligence agencies around the world".
Nacionalna agencija za bezbednost Sjedinjenih Američkih Država je nazvala Tor "kraljem visoke sigurnosti, niske latentnosti", BusinessWeek magazin je opisao Tor rečima "možda najefektivniji sredstvo da pobedimo napore da vrše nadzor širom sveta".