I think it's important to put up and run SOMETHING, a network separate from TOR, even if it must initially use pre-existing software that hasn't been completely verified. (yet) There's an enormous difference between a mere promise (it's coming "real soon now", as Jerry Pournelle used to say) and an actual useable system.
A currently-useable system would ignite far more interest, including donations perhaps, than a mere promise, especially if the software was all open-sourced and potentially verifiable, with the knowledge that it would be verified or replaced in the future.
Jim Bell
Yes. Hail to Assassination Politics, it was, is, a step away from pervasive fear, caution and obsequiousness, away from cowardly privacy policies and law enforcement obdience, lawyerly CYA terms and conditions. Further steps beyond AP, WL, TOR, PGP, slew of catchy brands and initials, are underway but not being revealed on Reddit, Chans, Wireds, Searches, News, Indictments, much less on this honey pot. Open source is a trap, shut up. Based on increasing successful hacks from outside the US, EU and allies most work-arounds and innovation are being done by parties not grown old, fat and lazy by excessive fame, conceit, funding, vanity, job security, benefits, profits, collegiality's willful ignorance, hey we invented the internet and computers, all this (once-)amazing stuff, why hell, we're so good and skilled we're supported by the richest government, corporations, donors and NGOs in the world. And backed by threats of WMDs, cruise missiles, swarms of satellites, special forces, spies and informers galore. USA is subject to a new and different culture, by walls inside and outside its borders, as it was founded to be, gloating about its power, still fighting last wars, losing all new ones, some it doesn't have a clue about so befuddled by comfort and imperialistic practices it dare not change, cannot change, doesn't want to change. Trump is a pure example of this but far from alone, more a consequence than a variation -- "The Presidency," (whoever in the slot), Congress, Supreme Court, state and locals -- where braggadocio, piggishness and advertising and entertainment, news and "smart" -- reign.