You mean ARPA-net? Oops....
On 23 Jul 2014, Sarah <caped_wonderwo...@zoho.com> wrote: >Shh, don't let them find out that the military has had ties to the >Internet since before it was the Internet. The concentrated hysteria >might warp the space-time continuum. > >On July 23, 2014 9:02:46 AM EDT, Moritz Bartl <mor...@torservers.net> >wrote: >>On 07/23/2014 02:24 PM, Kristy Chambers wrote: >>> Have I written, that there is anything creepy about that? >>> The basic question is, in how the tor project can be trusted if we >>look >>> on suspicious activities of tor developers (e.g. choosing worse >>design >>> decisions). >> >>The whole process is open; Tor may sometimes be slow at making any >>design decisions, exactly because they want everything to be backed by >>proper research. http://freehaven.net/anonbib/ is a repository of a >lot >>of papers, and the research community obviously has a close eye on Tor >>and alternative designs. Many people, like me, coming from a computer >>science/privacy research background, can evaluate the decisions and so >>far there is no evidence that Tor doesn't try its best. >> >>Everyone is aware of the bad situation of the US government funding >>almost every serious venture in privacy these days, but EU funding is >>awarded very differently and hard to acquire as a free software >>project. >>If you have a good idea where to get independent funding, we could >even >>start a completely non-US dependent entity to work on Tor. >> >>Tor never tried to hide the US background and its funding sources. Of >>course, there is always a (maybe subtle) influence by a funder, but in >>general Tor writes the proposals and the deliverables and does it in a >>very sane way. >> >>This FUD comes up quite often these days, one must wonder if there's >>some controlled media campaign going on. Then again, random >journalists >>come across this non-story all the time. >> >>-- >>Moritz Bartl >>https://www.torservers.net/ >>-- >>tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >>To unsubscribe or change other settings go to >>https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
