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From the document header: "The Tor Project, a private non-profit that underpins the dark web and enjoys cult status among privacy activists, is almost 100% fund
by sschueller 9y ago
From the document header: "The Tor Project, a private non-profit that underpins the dark web and enjoys cult status among privacy activists, is almost 100% funded by the US government. In the process of writing my book Surveillance Valley, I was able to obtain via FOIA roughly 2,500 pages of correspondence — including strategy and contracts and budgets and status updates — between the Tor Project and its main funder, a CIA spinoff now known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). These files show incredible cooperation between Tor and the regime change wing of the US government. The files are released to the public here. —Yasha Levine"
- eli 9y agoIsn't secure private communication that can't be intercepted often aligned with the goals of regime change?
- socrates1024 9y agoContrary to the article, Tor is not a private non-profit. It's a publicly supported non-profit.
- _djo_ 9y agoThe BBG isn't a CIA spin-off either, it was created after the broadcasting functions (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, etc) were split off from the US Information Agency, which was a public and non-secret agency overtly created to advance US interests. At no point were either the BBG or the USIA secret or their intentions unknown. If the author of this piece has to rely on imaginary bogeymen like this, I don't have much faith in the rest of their work.