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"are the fact that current privacy movements like Tor, Signal, OTF, BBG are fundamentally military funded and survive on government contracts."

Are those "facts" avaiable for investigating, without having to buy the book?

(that Tor is partly US administration funded is known, but Signal? And what is OTF and BGG?)



https://www.opentech.fund/results/supported-projects/open-wh...

Funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund

Which is funded by Radio Free Asia (RFA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia. It had a few reboots but was created as a CIA program in 1951 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia_(Committee_for...) to blast shortwaves into China from Manilla to try to overthrow the Chinese government. Rebooted more recently since the advent of the great firewall of China.


Wow, that is so thin it is transparent. If this is the sort of 'proof' that we are going to find then I am glad you posted the ref here so that I could add yet another kook to the list of those whose privacy/security rantings and books I can ignore. The biggest danger to long-term privacy projects is not the risk of taking advantage of an opportune partnership with a government agency when incentives align, it is conspiracy nutjobs poisoning the well with their paranoia and delusions.


And Signal?

The main tool, used for private communication?




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