-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 3/20/2011 5:08 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8388484/Iran-cracks-down-on-web-dissident-technology.html >> >> Iran cracks down on web dissident technology... >> >> ... The value of “internet freedom” technologies to US >> foreign policy has not gone unnoticed in Washington: the Tor Project’s arms >> race with Iranian authorities is_funded in part by grants from both the >> Department of Defense and the State Department_. >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-talk mailing list >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > You've GOT to be kidding. Tell me that's a mistake. Tor Project, > dedicated to privacy & anonymity, takes $ from DoD & Sam? While the US > spies on it's citizens, unconstitutionally? That's rich. > Honestly, this enlightenment will make me reconsider ever using Tor for > anything I don't want sent directly to DC. It's like trusting car > magazines' reviews that get their advertising $ from car manufacturers. > There is no way the fed is going to give $ to any "privacy" organization > w/o wanting something (cough, back door) in return. Every ISP has been > forced into violating users' privacy. Why would Tor project, after > taking $ from Sam, be any different? OK users, go ahead & stick your > head in the sand. > > EVEN if it's not true, for me, Tor project has lost a good deal of its > credibility through its associations. Of course, no government would > ever lie & neither would a company (AT&T, Ford, Google, R.J. Reynolds...).
If I'm not mistaken, not only has TOR had at least some government / DOD funding from the start, the original project was started by the military. - -- Check out my Youtube channel: http://youtube.com/tinfoilchefdotcom Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tinfoilchef -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBTYbATHV+YnyE1GYEAQjRNwf8CKCehqNwRNVpL+ZUgkeS24uVAJB+pKnJ sxGs7f0I5JUO8lB3UZewJSXHxnxQ2dAHTZPg0T46qD2sn+tuXk0OPlONnBu3/1q0 oUWE6ADJhTZEvJINdR35dvC8JKQCJfGtJZMBFyW7jd37eBrmbOac0Qdu8vWh2bTR oQxbhXZXr7a6jULAtxf1jyZhTFVjeQ8TieGNm2iga4d26/P5xDCAHcEbSkokOAFx d/zX9iHC5BELOC+ASkEe9hItIf24W9rjfAE3JUSmCd1y4M52dc0a1yhw7IOH8R94 aILHdkXt0qpZVRfbDICOwNEIJDpZMLLa/lxAojlMuT22RwMF8qrung== =NkTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
