HackerNCoder

And where is the proof of that?

Just because someone gives money to the Tor Project doesn't mean they get to tell them exactly what to do.

A stronger/faster Tor network.

Oh oh I know! 38% the US government, 36% individual donors (people like me), 16% private foundations, 5% other (not US) governments, 9% corporations and 1.5% "other"

https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...

> in no small part because running the server space needed usually incurs significant legal risks since congrats, you've now become a target for law enforcement to bust your door down and ask why an IP you own a machine on is being used to upload CP to the clearnet - few people want to deal with this scenario for blatantly obvious reasons

It only does if you set it up as an exit node.

source: padding spec, https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/padding-spec....

I hope that engagement was people telling you that in fact: No don't do that.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/wikis/Exp...

It's very... problematic. And Yasha clearly displays a lack of knowledge (or is knowingly lying) by making the claim that the Tor Project is tipping of the US government to vulnerabilities. Here is why: https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/03/askrob-does-tor-let-gover...

Some more Yasha stuff: https://micahflee.com/2014/12/fact-checking-pandos-smears-ag...

No, v3 isn't TLS either. TLS is only used as a connector between hops (so the client connect to a node using TLS, and the nodes connect to each other using TLS), but that is it. (I think, if I'm wrong do tell me. I didn't go check the spec)

Yea, there is only about 1000 (actually 1300, I just checked) exits - out of only ~6000 nodes total, the Tor network is actually kinda small.

You don't need (outdated) FOIA documents for that... Go to https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/ and you will see that they get money from the US government, if you want to know more about how much, go check the IRS 990 forms [1] or check the blog post that explains the 990, it also gives clear percentages on how much comes from where, [2]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/reports/ [2] https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...

There is some C in the gitlab repo? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/graphs/main/ch...

But the CONTRIBUTING doesn't say you need to install a C compiler, so probably not? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/CONT...

I should probably add something about that to the post.

Sorta like the Tor version of DNS. It's where your Tor goes to get information about an onion, e.g. how to connect to it. Tor versions that don't support v2 will refuse to host this information, and so if all 6 HSDirs of an v2 onion doesn't support it, the onion will be unreachable.

Maybe understanding a bit about how onion services work will help: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/