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A subset of relay operators & other volunteers monitor the network for bad actors and report them to Tor Project who will then direct directory authority operators to blacklist those relays.

One of those volunteers is nusenu: https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-...

I’m pretty sure the clause at the end of the questionnaire is just their default. They say “no, your contact information will not be published” right before the questionnaire, which I’d take to mean that no, they aren’t going to include your name.

Can you elaborate on Signal being supported by the NSA? I’ve never come across anything suggesting this.

I’m not sure how Signal was supported financially between 2015 and 2018 — maybe out of Moxie’s own pocket from Whisper Systems acquisition by Twitter? — but right now its continued development is supported by a $50,000,000 donation[0] from Brian Acton of WhatsApp.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/