That’s not as (diversified) as I’d like to be,” he said. “Our funding comes from a diversified number of groups within the U.S. State Department, the National Science Foundation and the Open Technology Fund.

He said 80 percent of the funding for the Tor Project comes from government agencies such as the U.S. “The very short answer to that is, I wrote Tor – not the Navy.” “If you only learn about Tor through some in the media, they have been spreading inaccurate memes such as ‘the Navy wrote Tor so how can I trust it?'” he said. government in some way compromises Tor’s core mission. They have so many more options beyond Tor.”ĭingledine said there are misconceptions about funding of the Tor Project by the U.S. That’s the terrorist or the bad guy problem. “Bad guys can easily build a temporary tool that can be used for a week that only 10 people use and they’ll never tell anyone about it. He argued criminals don’t need or want Tor. He estimated that only 3 percent of Tor users use the service to connect to hidden websites and services.

But at this point with the millions of people using Tor every day, the average user is the average internet user.” A tiny fraction of Tor traffic makes up what overhyped journalists call the ‘dark web,'” he said. “Most people use Tor to safely reach ordinary websites. That’s why Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine took the stage last week at DEF CON to bust popular myths and announce upcoming features related to the anonymity network that averages 2 million users a day.ĭingledine’s biggest beef when it comes to Tor misinformation is the network’s alleged association with the “dark web.” The Tor Project gets a bad rap as being a playground for the guilty.

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