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Tor is currently funded by the US government. Any list of things you should know about tor should include that.

• growupkids 12y ago
  Which is a half truth at best, the list of sponsors includes far more than the US government, including non-govt bodies, and 4300 individuals: https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en
• pekk 12y ago
  Say what you will about the US government, but you could do worse as far as sinister sponsorship.
• middleclick 12y ago
  The protocol and the code is open. It doesn't matter who funds it, but let it be also clear that the US government is one of the funders. Also, the government is not one coherent entity that all of its bodies want to spy on people.
• jonnybgood 12y ago
  I guess we should also should include that with every Linux kernel release too. The US government has funded a lot of publicly available security technology that you may not even be aware of, even through the NSA (SELinux). It is a good thing the US government supports these things.