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Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by yeukhon »

zmanian wrote: post #2

Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?

Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by zmanian »

yeukhon wrote: post #3
zmanian wrote: post #2

Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?

They use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary.

Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.

Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by yeukhon »

zmanian wrote: post #4
yeukhon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?

They use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary. Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.

Thank you for the info. This is helpful to know.

[edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.

Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by zmanian »

tacojuan wrote: post #6
zmanian wrote: post #2

Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...

Agree, lutz.

But EFF and Freedom of Press also use Paypal and they have a nice interface for monitoring recurring contributions.

Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by middleclick »

tacojuan wrote: post #6
zmanian wrote: post #2

Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...

I agree but I think the problem is the lack of an alternative in the space. PayPal works across countries.

You can even send in cash...

Re: Detailing the CMU Tor Hidden Services Attack and Tor's Response

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Post by EthanHeilman »

tacojuan wrote: post #6
zmanian wrote: post #2

Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...

I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...

You can play via bitcoins if that is your thing:

https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate-options.html.en

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