Topic: TOR - on June 28, 2016 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
Tor Project Battled Over Hiring Ex-CIA Agent, Chat Logs Show
The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains the world's most popular anonymity software, is often protective of its public image. In particular, the organization faces regular—and often unsubstantiated—attacks about the motivations of its funders, and specifically its reliance on money from the US government. Related to that delicate PR dance are recently unearthed logs from an internal chat channel for the Tor Project, which show how staff were torn over the brief hiring of an ex-CIA official, and how that would affect the organization's image and safety of activists' family members too. Overall, the logs show an organization that is stuck between a rock and a hard place: one that wishes to develop and perhaps have greater links with government if they would be beneficial, but which then has to deal with the public's’ perception of that.
motherboard.vice.com a list of the pseudonyms used in the chat matched to core Tor Project names This is an IRC log from #tor-internal - our water cooler irc channel
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