Comment by toby-
So was the Internet at DARPA (or its modern foundation). And the WWW at CERN.
Tor's development team aren't on the payroll of the US gov't, and their funding comes from many sources.
If having received funding from a government agency is enough to earn your distrust, you'd quickly become a paranoid schizophrenic.
> Tor's development team aren't on the payroll of the US gov't, and their funding comes from many sources.
That's not serious. From the Tor official blog:
> U.S. Government (53.5% of total revenue)
> Individual Donations (28.5% of total revenue)
> Non-U.S. Governments (7.5% of total revenue)
> Foundations (6.4% of total revenue)
> Corporations (3.4% of total revenue)
> Other (0.6% of total revenue)
https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...