full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Peeling the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:27:37 -0700
From: Stephen Crane <culda.rinon@...il.com>
To: "Ivan .Heca" <ivanhec@...il.com>
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] Peeling the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing
 Tor was (or is) funded by the US government | PandoDaily

Tor was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Lab. Does this
automatically mean it's backdoored then? Could someone insert a backdoor
into open-source software? Yes. Funding sources do little to change this.
Now, who is controlling exit nodes is a different story, but that's another
can of worms.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ivan .Heca <ivanhec@...il.com> wrote:

> Funding doubled, so engineering some back doors?
>
> In 2012, Tor nearly doubled its budget, taking in $2.2 million from
> Pentagon and intel-connected grants: $876,099 came from the DoD, $353,000
> from the State Department, $387,800 from IBB.
>
> That same year, Tor lined up an unknown amount funding from the
> Broadcasting Board of Governors to finance fast exit nodes.
>
> http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
>
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