In 1989, when the internet was predominantly ASCII-based and HyperCard had yet to give birth (or at least act as a midwife) to the world wide web, R.U. Sirius launched Mondo 2000. “I’d say it was…
— Read on www.theverge.com/2013/3/7/4036040/cypherpunks-julian-assange-wikileaks-encryption-surveillance-dystopia
Tag: Tor
Fact-checking the Tor Project’s government ties
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. A book by Yasha Levine.
Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — you’ll never look at the Internet the same again.
— Read on surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-projects-government-ties
[2018] An FOI request has revealed ‘anonymous’ browser Tor is funded by US government agencies
“Anonymous” web browser Tor might not be anonymous at all, after a journalist was granted a 2500-page Freedom of Information request that claims it receives funding from the US government.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com.au/claims-tor-funded-by-us-government-agencies-2018-3
Intercepted @ The Intercept | Ronald Thomas West
The Intercept’s “Attention Federal Employees: If You See Something, Leak Something” with its’ ‘how to’ leak, provides potential leakers with some resoundingly bad advice: “Begin by bringing your personal computer to a Wi-Fi network that isn’t associated with you or your employer, like one at a coffee shop. Download the Tor Browser. (Tor allows you…
— Read on ronaldthomaswest.com/2017/01/19/intercepted-the-intercept/
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 