Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project

Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by jsjddbbwj on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:28PM (#22908784)

What does Tor need 35 engineers for?

Serious question, since Tor is basically the server-client which was finished a long time ago and then a browser that basically is a fork of Firefox ESR.

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by jerheinze on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:23PM (#22909283)

You can get a gist of that by looking at what they do for each sponsor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors (e.g. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/S... )

Another place to look is their tor-project mailing list where in each meeting they list things to do/things done: (e.g. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-Apri... ) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by woodandsteel on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:14PM (#22912270)

Well for one thing, it needs to defend Tor against many parties, some of them with essentially unlimited resources, who are working full-time to find holes to exploit.

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:57PM (#22912815)

Yeah, when you can credibly consider the NSA as an adversary, you need a strong team

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by twistypencil on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:03PM (#22911841)

They don't have 35 engineers

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by anacrolix on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:47AM (#22914473)

What even is not engineering?

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