[tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

[Edward Langenback]

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Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> On 3/20/2011 5:08 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8388484/Iran-cracks-down-on-web-dissident-technology.html
>>
>> Iran cracks down on web dissident technology...
>>
>> ...  The value of “internet freedom” technologies to US
>> foreign policy has not gone unnoticed in Washington: the Tor Project’s arms
>> race with Iranian authorities is_funded in part by grants from both the
>> Department of Defense and the State Department_.
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> You've GOT to be kidding.  Tell me that's a mistake.  Tor Project, 
> dedicated to privacy & anonymity, takes $ from DoD & Sam?  While the US 
> spies on it's citizens, unconstitutionally?  That's rich.
> Honestly, this enlightenment will make me reconsider ever using Tor for 
> anything I don't want sent directly to DC.  It's like trusting car 
> magazines' reviews that get their advertising $ from car manufacturers.  
> There is no way the fed is going to give $ to any "privacy" organization 
> w/o wanting something (cough, back door) in return.  Every ISP has been 
> forced into violating users' privacy.  Why would Tor project, after 
> taking $ from Sam, be any different?  OK users, go ahead & stick your 
> head in the sand.
> 
> EVEN if it's not true, for me, Tor project has lost a good deal of its 
> credibility through its associations.  Of course, no government would 
> ever lie & neither would a company (AT&T, Ford, Google, R.J. Reynolds...).

If I'm not mistaken, not only has TOR had at least some government /
DOD funding from the start, the original project was started by the
military.

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