On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:52:05PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > If Torproject ending it's close ties w/ U.S. military funding (by some > > means) isn't important for it's reputation & appearance to the broader > > internet community, I'm not sure what is. > > The code is open for inspection so it's not an overt issue, and the > cash funds a lot of good research. Outright bribery or force "here's > a million or an NSL/order, don't implement this", has a reasonably > good chance of resulting in a sitdown protest closure of the project. > So the only issue I see is covert, "here's a million, go research this > (which might keep you too busy to discover or implement this other > thing we don't like)". Yes, the US is a curious home for tor in these > regards. Yet moving it someplace else will have a different set of > pressures (though probably lesser), a different set of donors, coders, > etc.
Ordinary people do not know this word "code" (especially open source). They believe that the piper calls the tune. And in fact it is very difficult to argue with such a statement without falling into the technical details ("code is open") -- 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