FOIA request shows Tor is almost 100% funded by the US government

https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/projectid:37206-The-Tor-Files-Transparency-for-the-Dark-Web

by sschueller • 8 years ago

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itdaniher2• 8 years ago

Posted on a duplicate:

Good old Yasha! If you've been paying attention to his works, you'll be underwhelmed by this particular post. He repeats his claims, many of which are easily verifiable and simultaneously without significance. Yes, Tor updates fiscal sponsors with regards to project status.

Yes, Tor is USG funded. No, it's not a Honeypot. It's also not a panacea.

As a technical project based in Cambridge, MA, Tor doesn't exist in a political vacuum.

If Tor was more of a pain to the USG than a benefit, it likely would not have been able to grow to the extent it has, but this by no means is indicative of a comprehensive system failure or any significant subterfuge on the part of Tor developers. I do not believe Yasha or anyone else has evidence to the contrary.

To be clear, I dislike Yasha as a self-aggrandizing spinlord shipping a conspiracy theory laden set of tenuous hypothesis, but I've gone out of my way to read the documents he's released to date

colordrops• 8 years ago

No, it's not a Honeypot

How do you know?

jerheinze3• 8 years ago

How do you know?

https://github.com/isislovecruft/library--/tree/master/espio...

sctb• 8 years ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501630.

rdiddly• 8 years ago

This isn't news, but it has always been the thing that made me doubtful about Tor.

jerheinze3• 8 years ago

but it has always been the thing that made me doubtful about Tor.

If they weren't open about what they did with that funding, and the funding came directly from the NSA? Sure! That would've left everyone pretty doubtful. But since their funding comes from things like the NSF, OTF, ... and they're pretty open about the deliverables that each sponsor seeks[1] (for e.g. [2]), then there's really no reason to be doubtful.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors

[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/S...

FOIA request shows Tor is almost 100% funded by the US government

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