The US Government also gets extensive use out of Tor. Law enforcement uses it for informants etc. As explained on the Tor website, this is actually a good thing as it makes you more anonymous (are you a fed, a journalist, somebody looking for porn, etc) Jimmy Dioxin On 08/14/2010 07:26 AM, Anon Mus wrote: > Jimmy Dioxin wrote: >> Hey Folks, >> >> Cryptome has posted the Tor Project 2008 Tax Return available at: >> http://cryptome.org/0002/tor-2008.zip >> >> As many know, all US non-profit corporation returns are available upon >> request by the public. >> >> Firstly, people need to look through these returns in the same way we >> audit code. Looking at funding sources and expenditures is important to >> insuring Tor is a useful anonymity tool for years to come. >> >> > > Thanks for this. > > It looks like 90% of the funding is from the US, nearly all US government. > > > Internews Europe - France $183,180 (35.6%) > (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internews) > Stichting Nlnet - Netherlands $42,931 > International Broadcasting $260,000 (50.5%)) > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Broadcasting_Bureau) > Google US $28,500 (5.5%) > > Total $514,611 > > > Add to this the number of Tor nodes run from US institutions (many at US > gov funded edu's) and you should be able to see who that "Global > Adversary" is! > > **** US - GOV **** > > So perhaps we should not expect Tor to protect us from the hand that > feeds it (and anyone else who has access to their data) > > >> Secondly, can the Tor project release these returns on the site for the >> above purpose? I don't think there needs to be some onerous accounting >> process for reporting to the public (ya'll have better things to do >> anyways), but these returns would be nice to have in the interest of >> transparency. >> >> Thanks, >> Jimmy Dioxin >> >> > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ >
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