Documents Show Tor Project Is Nearly 100% U.S Government Funded
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Documents Show Tor Project Is Nearly 100% U.S Government Funded
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#3This shouldn’t be shocking at all. (I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Satoshi Nakamoto is an NSA front.)
The US has been involved in ‘election meddling’ and regime change forever, and building tools to help activists destabilize governments is part of that.
That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.
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#4This shouldn’t be shocking at all. (I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Satoshi Nakamoto is an NSA front.) The US has been involved in ‘election meddling’ and regime change forever, and building tools to help activists destabilize governments is part of that. That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.
> That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.
Made me LOL.
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#5This is no secret at all.
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#6It wouldn't matter where funding came from if the basic algorithms used for encryption as well as the rest of Tor source are sound and audited. Are there any past, present or future efforts to audit Tor?
The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen even if Tor hadn't received any funding from any govt. Any darknet has to be hot target for govt infiltration and subversion and Tor is not an exception. If you're planning to do something highly illegal, think if you need to do it at all. Do not assume a few hops through a few machines means you'll forever be out of reach of concerted attempts at finding you.
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#7https://donate.torproject.org/pdr is how you can fix it!
Re: Documents Show Tor Project Is Nearly 100% U.S Government Funded
#8It wouldn't matter where funding came from if the basic algorithms used for encryption as well as the rest of Tor source are sound and audited. Are there any past, present or future efforts to audit Tor? The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen…
At least here "highly illegal" can be read as "highly illegal according to the US"
Re: Documents Show Tor Project Is Nearly 100% U.S Government Funded
#9It wouldn't matter where funding came from if the basic algorithms used for encryption as well as the rest of Tor source are sound and audited. Are there any past, present or future efforts to audit Tor? The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen…
At least here "highly illegal" can be read as "highly illegal according to the US"
The USA is mostly the gov't with the reach to monitor TOR that thoroughly, but other countries might be doing enough, too. Also, the USA is well known to share intel. If you're annoying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, China, Germany, or any Five Eyes country, at least, TOR is helpful, but not sufficient. And probably several more countries.
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#10This isn't secret and isn't news. Who keeps posting this garbage?