Tor was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Lab. Does this automatically mean it's backdoored then? Could someone insert a backdoor into open-source software? Yes. Funding sources do little to change this. Now, who is controlling exit nodes is a different story, but that's another can of worms.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ivan .Heca <[email protected]> wrote: > Funding doubled, so engineering some back doors? > > In 2012, Tor nearly doubled its budget, taking in $2.2 million from > Pentagon and intel-connected grants: $876,099 came from the DoD, $353,000 > from the State Department, $387,800 from IBB. > > That same year, Tor lined up an unknown amount funding from the > Broadcasting Board of Governors to finance fast exit nodes. > > http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list > http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure > Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ > _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
