{"id":31789,"date":"2018-03-02T06:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31789"},"modified":"2018-03-02T06:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:44:32","slug":"tor-project-almost-100-funded-by-the-us-government-foia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31789","title":{"rendered":"Tor Project &#8220;Almost 100% Funded By The US Government&#8221;: FOIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-03-02\/tor-project-almost-100-funded-us-government-report\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Tor Project &#8220;Almost 100% Funded By The US Government&#8221;: FOIA<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\"><\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Tor Project &#8211; a private nonprofit known as the &#8220;<em>NSA-proof&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>gateway to the &#8220;dark web,&#8221; turns out to be <strong>almost &#8220;100% funded by the US government<\/strong>&#8221; according to documents obtained by investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/tor-hacked_0.jpg?itok=GEJHdU37\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/tor-hacked_0.jpg?itok=GEJHdU37\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/tor-hacked_0.jpg?itok=GEJHdU37\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tor browser, launched in 2001, utilizes so-called &#8220;onion routing&#8221; technology developed by the US Navy in 1998 to provide anonymity over computer networks.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/surveillancevalley.com\/blog\/fact-checking-the-tor-projects-government-ties\">blog post<\/a>, Levine details how he was able to obtain roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/public\/search\/projectid:37206-The-Tor-Files-Transparency-for-the-Dark-Web\">2,500 pages<\/a> of correspondence via FOIA requests while performing research for a book. The documents include strategy, contract, budgets and status updates between the Tor project and its primary source of funding; a CIA spinoff known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which &#8220;oversees America&#8217;s foreign broadcasting operations like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By following the money, <strong>I discovered that Tor was not a grassroots<\/strong>. I was able to show that despite its indie radical cred and claims to help its users protect themselves from government surveillance online,<strong> Tor was almost 100% funded by three U.S. National Security agencies: the Navy, the State Department and the BBG.<\/strong> Following the money revealed that Tor was not a grassroots outfit, but a military contractor with its own government contractor number. <strong>In other words: it was a privatized extension of the very same government that it claimed to be fighting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The documents conclusively showed that Tor is not independent at all.<\/strong> The organization did not have free reign to do whatever it wanted, but was kept on a very short leash and bound by contracts with strict contractual obligations. <strong>It was also required to file detailed monthly status reports that gave the U.S. government a clear picture of what Tor employees were developing, where they went and who they saw.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<em>Yasha Levine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor Project &#8220;Almost 100% Funded By The US Government&#8221;: FOIA The Tor Project &#8211; a private nonprofit known as the &#8220;NSA-proof&#8221;\u00a0gateway to the &#8220;dark web,&#8221; turns out to be almost &#8220;100% funded by the US government&#8221; according to documents obtained by investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine. 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