Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-15 Thread Anon Mus
Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:26:57PM +0100, Anon Mus wrote: It looks like 90% of the funding is from the US, nearly all US government. If you know any funders outside the US who care about privacy, anonymity, or circumvention, we're all ears. :) I am certain

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-15 Thread Anon Mus
Andrew Lewman wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:26:57 +0100 Anon Mus my.green.lant...@googlemail.com wrote: It looks like 90% of the funding is from the US, nearly all US government. Internews Europe - France $183,180 (35.6%) (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internews)

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-15 Thread Anon Mus
Jimmy Dioxin wrote: The US Government also gets extensive use out of Tor. Law enforcement uses it for informants etc. As explained on the Tor website, this is actually a good thing as it makes you more anonymous (are you a fed, a journalist, somebody looking for porn, etc) Jimmy Dioxin

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-15 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 08/15/2010 02:56 AM, Anon Mus wrote: I think you'll find that Tor only became officially incapable of protecting from such an adversary around 2004/5 when numerous request to add this protection to Tor was made. Since then its been the official policy not to protect from such a threat (so

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-15 Thread Michael Scheinost
Hi all, thanks a lot for your answers. I did some additional reading and now have a vague idea how tor exit enclaving works. As far as I understand, enclaving doesn't break tor anonymity and privacy. Quite contrary to this, anonymity may be even enhanced by it

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:40:16 +0200 Michael Scheinost mich...@scheinost.org wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for your answers. I did some additional reading and now have a vague idea how tor exit enclaving works. As far as I understand, enclaving doesn't break tor anonymity and privacy. Quite

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-15 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:40 +0200, Michael Scheinost wrote: 2. Why is it offering HTTP If duckduckgo.com really cares for the anonymity and privacy of its users, why do they offer unencrypted HTTP? Even if tor users are encouraged to use HTTPS, some of them will forget doing so. There's no

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:40 +0200, Michael Scheinost wrote: 2. Why is it offering HTTP If duckduckgo.com really cares for the anonymity and privacy of its users, why do they offer unencrypted HTTP? Even if tor users are