Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

[Jimmy Dioxin]

The US Government also gets extensive use out of Tor. Law enforcement
uses it for informants etc. As explained on the Tor website, this is
actually a good thing as it makes you more anonymous (are you a fed, a
journalist, somebody looking for porn, etc)

Jimmy Dioxin

On 08/14/2010 07:26 AM, Anon Mus wrote:
> Jimmy Dioxin wrote:
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Cryptome has posted the Tor Project 2008 Tax Return available at:
>> http://cryptome.org/0002/tor-2008.zip
>>
>> As many know, all US non-profit corporation returns are available upon
>> request by the public.
>>
>> Firstly, people need to look through these returns in the same way we
>> audit code. Looking at funding sources and expenditures is important to
>> insuring Tor is a useful anonymity tool for years to come.
>>
>>   
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> It looks like 90% of the funding is from the US, nearly all US government.
> 
> 
> Internews Europe - France      $183,180 (35.6%)
> (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internews)
> Stichting Nlnet - Netherlands   $42,931
> International Broadcasting       $260,000 (50.5%))
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Broadcasting_Bureau)
> Google US                             $28,500 (5.5%)
> 
> Total                                       $514,611
> 
> 
> Add to this the number of Tor nodes run from US institutions (many at US
> gov funded edu's) and  you should be able to see who that "Global
> Adversary" is!
> 
> ****  US - GOV ****
> 
> So perhaps we should not expect Tor to protect us from the hand that
> feeds it (and anyone else who has access to their data)
> 
> 
>> Secondly, can the Tor project release these returns on the site for the
>> above purpose? I don't think there needs to be some onerous accounting
>> process for reporting to the public (ya'll have better things to do
>> anyways), but these returns would be nice to have in the interest of
>> transparency.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jimmy Dioxin
>>
>>   
> 
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