I remember hearing about this on a Security Now episode [1]. Just because the US government funds the project does not mean they dictate features. Here is a quo

I remember hearing about this on a Security Now episode [1]. Just because the US government funds the project does not mean they dictate features. Here is a quote from Roger Dingledine (co-founder of Tor) found in [1]: "I should take a brief moment to explain how funding proposals work, for those who worry that governments come to us wanting to pay us to do something bad. There is never any point where someone comes to us and says, 'I'll pay you X to do Y.' The way it works is that we try to find groups with funding for the general area that we want to work on, and then we go to them with a specific plan for what we'd like to do and how much it would cost for us to do that, and if we're lucky they say okay." [1] https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-693.txt https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-693.txt