On 07/23/2014 02:24 PM, Kristy Chambers wrote: > Have I written, that there is anything creepy about that? > The basic question is, in how the tor project can be trusted if we look > on suspicious activities of tor developers (e.g. choosing worse design > decisions).
The whole process is open; Tor may sometimes be slow at making any design decisions, exactly because they want everything to be backed by proper research. http://freehaven.net/anonbib/ is a repository of a lot of papers, and the research community obviously has a close eye on Tor and alternative designs. Many people, like me, coming from a computer science/privacy research background, can evaluate the decisions and so far there is no evidence that Tor doesn't try its best. Everyone is aware of the bad situation of the US government funding almost every serious venture in privacy these days, but EU funding is awarded very differently and hard to acquire as a free software project. If you have a good idea where to get independent funding, we could even start a completely non-US dependent entity to work on Tor. Tor never tried to hide the US background and its funding sources. Of course, there is always a (maybe subtle) influence by a funder, but in general Tor writes the proposals and the deliverables and does it in a very sane way. This FUD comes up quite often these days, one must wonder if there's some controlled media campaign going on. Then again, random journalists come across this non-story all the time. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ -- 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
