I noticed that the Tor Project's 2012 Financial Report from https://www.torproject.org/about/findoc/2012-TorProject-FinancialStatements.pdf notes that what appears to be Tor's largest single source of funding is a $876K U.S. Department of Defense grant obtained via the Stanford Research Institute that's described on PDF p.11 as follows:
"U.S. Department of Defense Pass-Through from SRI International Basic and Applied Research and Development in Areas Relating to the Navy Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance". Despite this transparency on Tor's own website, Tor's "Sponsors" page at https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en currently lists its largest donor as "an anonymous NGO." Isn't SRI "an anonymous North American NGO" only in the sense that Halliburton or Lockheed Martin could be considered a North American NGO? Is there another explanation for the discrepancy between the website and the Tor Project's 2012 Financial Statements? Could Roger or perhaps Andrew offer some details about the Tor Project's work under this grant? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
