Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director (cio.com) 33
itwbennett writes: Shari Steele, a 20-year veteran of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has been hired as executive director of the Tor Project, the widely used anonymity tool that frequently comes up in debates over encryption and privacy. Steele, who started at EFF as a staff attorney, then legal director and eventually executive director, comes on board at a time when Tor has been embroiled in controversy. In November, the organization accused the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon University $1 million for information on security issues that later facilitated arrests related to online drug markets.
Year-End Giving (Score:5, Informative)
The Tor Project is a tax-deductable 501(c)(3) for US taxpayers. They have several ways to donate [torproject.org].
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And that makes them "rich"?
The people who work on Tor, IMO, deserve our support. Perhaps if enough people supported them with donations they wouldn't have to turn to the government for funding to cover their basic operations.
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Hopefully it does. That's why I donate. I'd say not to worry and that I donated enough for you too but, well, they can always use more. Don't confuse the EFF with FSF or the GNU Project. They're not the same nor are they, shall we say, as zealous. The former gets my money, the latter two do not. I see the EFF to be much the same as I see the ACLU.
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Well, it's rather unlikely that my donating to any of those companies will put your family on a watch list so your family should be safe.
Actually, wait... No, it might. Sometimes I make anonymous donations and you're Anonymous Coward. Err... Please tell Mrs. Coward, Junior Coward, and Sister Coward to be careful and that I'm sorry but some things must be done in the name of freedom. Freedoms do entail risks, after all. If you don't want risks then you don't want freedom. That's okay for you to choose.
My fam
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Good point -- I was talking about the fact that they take money from the government does not make them "rich". That was the point I was trying to counter from the original author's post.
Microaggressions (Score:2)
I have a microagression for you: Fuck off MRA wanker. Go back to Roosh's site and whine there.
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She does kind of look like a young Kieth Richards in that picture.
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Richards??? I'm thinking more like Weird Al.
Don't mean that in a bad way, and she did a pretty darn good job at EFF.
Probably not, but who cares? (Score:2)
There aren't really that many transgender people and she basically looks like a non-transgender woman. And if she is transgender, who cares?
Legal Quarterback Heads Off field Team? (Score:2)
What is it with the idiotic comments? (Score:1)
All paid government shills with the intelligence of a peanut?