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Briar was funded by the CIA. Partly.

If this is about OTF, do you also distrust Let's Encrypt, Quad9, Tails, F-Droid, Signal, and Tor?

Yeah Signal is fucking rotten. You think its just allowed to exist in the USA? come on man!

Care to expound on that?

Source?

I haven't heard this particular rumor, not like they have In-Q-Tel connections a la Wickr, but they do take funding from the Open Technology Fund [0] which some of the more righteously paranoid take issue with, being US State Department and all. Same parent as Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America [1].

[0] https://briarproject.org/news/2018-1.0-released-new-funding/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

Do we have any reasons for concern?

The source code is available here: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/tree/master

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