On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Joe Btfsplk <joebtfs...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I've never known Sam to get involved in, or fund something - especially like > this - * w/o wanting something in return.* Ever. WHETHER or not they make > known, to anyone, what they want or intend to do. It's been shown for over > 50 - 60 yrs (probably much longer) that even people in charge of entire govt > projects (or govt funded ones), often don't know the *full* extent of > what's being done w/ the research, technology, info, etc. If you want to > ignore history, go ahead. What they have gained with the Tor project, and I'm just brainstorming here because I'm from Sweden and don't know much about the internals of DoD, is this: They need a project like Tor as much as "we" do, if not more. They need ways to communicate with spies and dissidents located all over the world, they need a system that let their people do this without causing any suspicion. With Tor, they have such a tool, and the openess of the software and source code means that it's more thoroughly tested than they could ever have done in secret. It is likely that they have a highly modified version of Tor and that they are watching the Tor project very carefully as a research project to see the strengths and weaknesses with such a project. Planting backdoors in software like this is pretty useless and ineffective, because you can only use it once. As soon as you act on information received, there is a very big chance that the backdoor will be uncovered, Tor will lose all credibility, and no one will ever again use it for anything that the US would seem interesting. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk