On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Robert Ransom <[email protected]>wrote: > > > What do you expect the Tor Project to do with zillions of dollars? > Using donated funds to operate more relays, bridges, and exit nodes > won't help much -- Tor nodes need to be dispersed among as many > different operators and ISPs as possible. Using donated funds to > improve the Tor software is a good thing, but there is a limit to how > much money can be thrown at that -- Tor developers must be competent > programmers, and must understand the Tor software and protocol well. > > Also, remember that Tor's opponents would put much more effort into > blocking Tor if it were heavily promoted in the Western media. (China > and Iran are not Tor's only opponents -- here in the US, misguided > politicians want to criminalize operating a Tor relay (see S. 436 > <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.436.IS:>).) > > > Hmm. I think I will add you to my list of "holding back the Tor Project from thinking bigger" people. But to clarify, this is not zillions of dollars, and I am not suggesting the Project itself deploy any relays, servers or bridges. Others like Amazon.com, Google, etc need to be convinced to do it.
-- Julie C. [email protected] GPG key 06D32144 available at http://keys.gnupg.net
