Shh, don't let them find out that the military has had ties to the Internet since before it was the Internet. The concentrated hysteria might warp the space-time continuum.
On July 23, 2014 9:02:46 AM EDT, Moritz Bartl <mor...@torservers.net> wrote: >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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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
