On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:51:11PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 07/21/2017 08:26 PM, #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ wrote: > > One of the key features that the Tor company/group has never > > implemented is chaff-filled network - that is, you specify "I want to > > allocate 100 KB/s to my node, and I want that divided equally amongst > > my outward connections, and any peer node that "randomly drops" > > packets, becomes less trusted by me. > > > > I asked the devs directly (or someone else did, can't remember for > > sure), and the reason came back "our funding proposals for this > > feature have never been approved" - which makes sense, since the CIA, > > DIA, DOD and NSA fund the creation of the Tor network, they don't > > want to fund features which make it much harder for them to uncloak > > users they are targetting. > > Maybe funded, as in past tense. The current Tor project is not > dependent at all on US government funding that I can see.
Shawn you're a funny lad - a little too transparent for your own good but hey, that's better from my perspective :D > If you can prove > otherwise, please post the proof. Oh please! Awesome - I love this in the morning, makes for a really happy day which I know is pre-laced with humour unseen by the one delivering the punch lines. Gold :) Your transparency is causing me to not stop chuckling. Juan is sharper than I and he spotted you ages ago. > The nice thing about free software is anyone can add those > features, or pay for them to be added. So even your non-government > or non-US programmers can change the code and run their own custom > version of Tor. The features you mention don't even break > compatibility with the rest of the network, so that's not an issue. Thank you for reiterating part of my email with which we evidently agree on. Have a great day - mine started out fabulous :D Z
