On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:10 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:49:12PM +0530, [email protected] wrote 0.5K bytes > in 13 lines about: > : may i know why governmetns fund TOR. i read 49% funds coming from > : government. TOR is usually considered for passing government restriction > : by journalists and activists. so why should governments fund this? > > Paul's already answered about how Tor and onion routing was started, so > I'll skip that bit. > > Someone's already pointed you at the torusers page, so I'll skip that > too. > > Governments fund tor to: > > - promote democracy > - protect their agents doing sting operations or investigations > - promote free speech where it doesn't exist > - protect whistleblowers > - provide freedom of access to an unfiltered internet > - protect their soldiers in hostile environments > - protect their employees identity while working online > > People in governments use tor for the same reason you use it. >
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