Re: Stephen Soghoian on U.S. Gov't Attitudes Toward Tor

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:30:27PM +0100, George W. Maschke wrote:

:   at least the two represented at the meeting, strongly disapprove of
:   Tor - and in particular, thought that research universities such as
:   IU, MIT, Georgia Tech, Harvard and others
:   <http://proxy.org/tor.shtml> have no business supporting such projects.


What about the Department of the Navy that initially funded it?  I
wonder if it was pointed out in these meeting that it was the DoD that
wanted this in the first place through the Office of Naval Research
and DARPA?

Though clearly consistency and taking responsibility fo r their
actions are not high points of US Gov't policy...