Almost Everyone Developing Tor Was Paid by the US Government (2014)

Almost Everyone Developing Tor Was Paid by the US Government (2014)(web.archive.org)

3 points by thepuppet33r 1 year ago | 2 comments

andrei-akopian 1 year ago |

Yes, Tor was developed by the US Government for US spies in Russia.

GPS was developed by the US Government.

RSA was classified by the US Government.

Lots of other stuff is also connected to the US government.

The title is misleading.

LinuxBender 1 year ago | |

It's quite a bit more inclusive than that [1] and IQT is just a small piece of it. There are endless programs coming out of Stanford SRI and Harvard that get tested by the public and have dual use civilian and DoD.

[1] - https://www.iqt.org/portfolio#full-portfolio