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Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by HackerNCoder on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:34PM (#33899082)
You don't need (outdated) FOIA documents for that... Go to https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/ and you will see that they get money from the US government, if you want to know more about how much, go check the IRS 990 forms [1] or check the blog post that explains the 990, it also gives clear percentages on how much comes from where, [2]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/reports/ [2] https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...

Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by yucky on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:00PM (#33899422)
This part appears to be missing from the Tor website:

> 2,500 pages of correspondence — including strategy and contracts and budgets and status updates — between the Tor Project and its main funder, a Central Intelligence Agency spinoff now known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). These files show incredible cooperation between Tor and the regime change wing of the US government.

So the documents acquired via FOIA requests are worth reading, and it's worth discussing why the US Intelligence community has such an active interest in propping up Tor.

Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by bombcar on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:43PM (#33899954)
It's pretty obvious that TOR is a helpful tool if you're doing spyshit in foreign countries.
Re:Tor Browser 12.0 by amatecha on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:19AM (#33905172)
That's what _they_ want you to think!

(finally I can say that and it may in fact actually be true for once! hahaha)