Die Zeit interviews Appelbaum ioerror

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Aug 19 17:04:01 PDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:35:53AM -0700, Juan's Tor Sock Puppet wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/18/2016 10:15 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
> > existing CIA funded "tor" network
> 
> Can you actually provide documentation the CIA funds the network itself
> en toto as opposed to, lets say, operating entrance and exit nodes?
> 
> Rr

Kudos for your nick- belly laugh on that one :)

I think you're splitting hairs.

Whether it's the DOD or the CIA, some black budget line items, "third
party" "arms length" (but CIA backed) financial contributors, or indeed
perhaps that's why the lead Tor devs get $100K+ salaries - may be off
the books, they're obliged to spend $30K of that on dir auths, exit
nodes, whatever, or any combination of the above,

it's splitting hairs.

The primary funder on the books, from memory, is the DOD.

The primary beneficiary are the CIA crooks who run around the world
attempting to overthrow governments around the world. They get to have a
very fancy and very functional overlay "free speech" network to assist
them with their dirty deeds.

Feel free to split hairs though - that only feeds the genuine concern.



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