The following is a list of current sponsors, and a list of past sponsors, for the TOR project. I think it would be a good idea if we contact them, stating we are aware of their current (or past) sponsorship of the TOR project, and tell them we intend to provide some long-needed friendly 'competition' to the TOR project. And say that we would appreciate having the same per-node donations that they donated to the TOR project. I am probably not the best one to make this pitch, since my 'reputation' seems to be a bit 'tarnished'. Okay, who here is the LEAST scandalous and outrageous? Jim Bell https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/ Sponsors:DARPA via University of Pennsylvania https://www.darpa.mil/program/extreme-ddos-defense Institute of Museum and Library Services via New York University https://www.imls.gov/ Team Cymruhttps://www.team-cymru.org/ Google Season of Docshttps://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ Craig Newmark Philanthropieshttps://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/ Digital Impact Alliancehttps://digitalimpactalliance.org/ DARPA via Georgetown Universityhttps://www.darpa.mil/ Past Sponsors - Torfox - 2009 - SRI International - 2011-2017 - Shinjiru Technology - 2009 - 2011 - Reddit - 2015 - Omidyar Network Enzyme Grant - 2006 - National Science Foundation via Rice University - 2006 - 2007 - National Science Foundation joint with Princeton University - 2012 - 2018 - National Science Foundation joint with University of Illinois at Chicago - 2016 - 2018 - National Science Foundation via Drexel University - 2009 - 2011 - Naval Research Laboratory - 2006 - 2010 - NLnet Foundation - 2008 - 2009 - National Christian Foundation - 2010-2012, 2014 - Internews Europe - 2006 - 2008 - Human Rights Watch - 2007 - Federal Foreign Office of Germany - 2015 - Google - 2008 - 2009 - Google Summer of Code - 2007-2014 and 2016-2017 - Freedom of the Press Foundation - 2014 - The Ford Foundation - 2013 - 2014 - Hivos/The Digital Defenders Partnership - 2014 - 2015 - Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2004 - 2005 - Disconnect - 2014 - Cyber-TA project - 2006 - 2008 - Bell Security Solutions Inc - 2006 - Broadcasting Board of Governors - 2006 - 2013 - Access Now - 2012 - Internews - 2008-2013 - DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory - 2001 - 2006 - Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment - 2018 - National Science Foundation via University of Minnesota - 2013 - 2018 - National Science Foundation joint with Georgetown - 2015 - 2019 - National Science Foundation joint with Rochester Institute of Technology - 2016 - 2019 - U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor via Harvard - 2017 - 2019