-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28/12/2013 11:43 pm, Art McGee wrote: > There's an interesting question on Quora about Tor at the moment - > "Tor: >> Why did the US government create and continue to fund Tor?", >> which can be found at < >> http://www.quora.com/Tor/Why-did-the-US-government-create-and-continue-to-fund-Tor
> >> Pardon me for sounding stupid, but what exactly is "interesting" about the > question? > > It seems to be the kind of query that springs from a nexus of > ignorance and paranoia, in the mind of someone too young to realize > that the foundation of the Internet itself was originally a > government funded project. Wow, harsh! On the other hand, it could've been a completely innocent question, wanting a definitive answer to the innuendo and paranoia about Tor's funding. > That person sounds like a victim of poor education about the > history of modern technology development, that a lot of it came > about as a result of government money and research, rather than the > contemporary libertarian capitalist fantasy of it manifesting whole > cloth from people's garages. No matter what the conservative > propagandists try to tell you, the smartest people in the world > actually work for the government in some capacity. Why not contribute your answer to this question on Quora, and set the person who asked the question straight? Peter. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSv6VcAAoJEBeiBij6lL5yyZ0P/jVRUqc8xOIigetIU1FBIjuN m+lhSisUA5l5ltJLp6EcE3bQW9jigiPqwIsWAIDLT5K+XysVX23nUFaAP1S6iVrE E7d2FCcLm97gHosTQfVN8aIr3m4geewq06QbCuHokLJYTgObuKhWNNiZRwZdDaIm uwv65if68//AArF6p8Z970FS+6gB6FhevZzXVSdMzoPX2lnPAUfifRNSXARJAhIw Ko9RwEL26G2hw3SnO3Ghp/Ntneog33+ioT6C9tybfZJpjHJbZeL+Cgpn86Slxt/8 t2wSO/mxbjAQ+84epLdWj+R6J5zUOUK0BL8uvAX27P9EwNijNYCyu2/EfZ3cclSH 7ug7mbLMgzJx+yJPRfXiz1kRorC96eD0xpGWvzp0UTJ+DLBHxS/ExzXunRcdimsr wnL2TNytJEQRaPx3INzKVi9Fc2wzLzhsiuzvqa+pHbEYAkPqqLBW6Cp9RKwNUApX u1Vi4+/WZ3AL4kUqe5vX/vkPRaSy5isP4RuzIhCU7lejeDczbZb/b39w/RSlhOc9 8yT5eBTAeHHOZSan0FIuCUGU/B9c1oVt1/hydvUnpYdOShYQINPuElcf3EGUTXMi 7QQui7T9zouQPns1l7LquOXlf7utk9yrkOnZqOJnEscNS6W4qv8oh3Vy1X7Uz8z4 LQUvLuHt3/24EPx0Cw8T =wbO0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
