Unless a billionaire steps up to fund Tor it will be a while before small contributions can supplant federal funding. It now comes from DoD through a contractor and from the State Department's principal propaganda agency, Braodcast Board of Governors, through a named front, Internews.
Since this issue has been raised for several years during which Tor brushed it off and contemned questioners, and has only recently made the MSM, it is likely the appeal for alternative funding is no different that the campaign to launder NSA leaks through suspiciously popular commercial outlets, shortly to be suppanted by billionaire largess as suspicious alternative to questioning the honesty and venality of those popular outlets. And surprise, that billionaire, @pierre, has been disclosed in tax reports as a Tor funder, EFF funder, funder of a large pack of do-gooders which happily generate generous tax write-offs for @pierre, the missus, staff, investors, a what else, Tor board members. Ah come, now, as it was commanded by Mammon, so it shall be done. Don't be surpised if this billionaire also funds Internews. Along with several dozen organizations doing spy-type things along the lines of Tor, DoD, State, and other USG spooks in sheepskin quietly shoveling bribes, oops, grants, to flush NGOs working the global Freedom of Information for liberation of [fill in the blanks]. Not to overlook funding of a slew of anonymizing services and programs, some non-profit some smartly turned profitable after building a rep for public service, why, even dual-using the two. Now don't forget to notice the commercial versions of Tor-like services sprouting like, like, dare say it, In-Q-Tel. And not least the growing crowd of lawyers, advisors, comsec consultants, apologists for failing public trust, and being handy advocates for more tweaking of faulty comsec and anonymizers. As it was preached by St Augustine, so sin shall be forgiven, not right away, to be sure, but late in the life of saints. At 03:18 PM 10/21/2013, you wrote:
I think it simply reduces to a desire to not be beholden to political interests. Regardless, I think if they can get the money from the Feds as well as other sources, they will have more money and more resources to build a good program and thus be a better product. The real problem only arises when the fed funding determines the direction of the project as a whole. If they remain transparent as to decision making, then that problem goes away. On 21/10/2013 3:03 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: > On 21 October 2013 16:57, Kyle Maxwell <ky...@xwell.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Ben Laurie <b...@links.org> wrote: >>> On 14 October 2013 14:36, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Guys, in order to minimize Tor Project's dependance on >>>> federal funding >>> >>> Why? >> >> Is that not self-explanatory after everything that happened in the >> federal government this month? >> > > I'm not privy to everything that happened in the federal government this > month. Perhaps you could elaborate? > > > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > -- Kelly John Rose Mississauga, ON Phone: +1 647 638-4104 Twitter: @kjrose Document contents are confidential between original recipients and sender. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
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