> This is because it is used by those trying to hide something, something which the NSA may like to know.

Sounds like a great reason for more people to use Tor!

Have you considered contributing to organizations that make sure no single entity controls too many exits:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-Septe...

https://www.torservers.net/

If I wanted to support the NSA, I'm sure I'd do volunteer work for those organizations -- and if I ran an intelligence agency, I'm sure I'd recruit assets off university campuses across the globe. Just saying.

> It is hard, perhaps, but a good attack for the NSA would be to run many of the exit nodes.

It definitely doesn't control most of the exit bandwidth, unless the TorServers and blutmagie guys have been conning us for maybe a decade now.

>TOR network

Tor, not TOR.

>This is because it is used by those trying to hide something, something which the NSA may like to know.

This is a rather strong statement about the average Tor user.