Funny that the likes of TAILS sneer at, say, Linux Security because of its links to the NSA, but build an entire OS around tor, 100% government funded. The world of online security is a funny thing in this regard, much like the nasty relationship between private media interests, party political govnerment, law enforcement, et al, the latter a web of deceits and false alternatives.
Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On March 2, 2018 3:35 PM, Jonathan Proulx <j...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:18:32PM +0100, J B wrote: > > :https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/tor-project-almost-100-funded-us-government-report > > FFS this is not news it is well know and established that TOR was a US > > research project largely between US NRL (naval research lab) and MIT: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#History > > https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en > > Also most research funding in the US at the time was through Defence > > budgets. That may still be the case but the size and importance of > > private corporate funding has been increasing (not sure that's morally > > "better"). > > If you read anything about TOR it is clearly dual (or poly) use with > > many conflicting even adversarial user groups BY DESIGN. > > This is why Open Source works looks at it have lots of people look at > > it, if anyone finds a back door or weak spot then we can talk about > > vast conspiracies but honestly any privacy service would be an NSA > > target (and foreign equivalents), public code review isn't perfect > > things can be hidden or missed but it's the best you've got. > > Do you think governments don't infiltrate "grass roots" orgnaizations > > or something? The NSA can submit code to any opensource project > > without revealing they are the source. Closed source is worse because > > you'll never see and honestly any product could be wholly the work of > > an intelligence agency front company. > > Be suspicious as you like but there's never been a secret about who > > started and funded this. > > -Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk