<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Robert Ransom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rransom.8774@gmail.com">rransom.8774@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>What do you expect the Tor Project to do with zillions of dollars?<br>
Using donated funds to operate more relays, bridges, and exit nodes<br>
won't help much -- Tor nodes need to be dispersed among as many<br>
different operators and ISPs as possible. Using donated funds to<br>
improve the Tor software is a good thing, but there is a limit to how<br>
much money can be thrown at that -- Tor developers must be competent<br>
programmers, and must understand the Tor software and protocol well.<br>
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Also, remember that Tor's opponents would put much more effort into<br>
blocking Tor if it were heavily promoted in the Western media. (China<br>
and Iran are not Tor's only opponents -- here in the US, misguided<br>
politicians want to criminalize operating a Tor relay (see S. 436<br>
<<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.436.IS" target="_blank">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.436.IS</a>:>).)<br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmm. I think I will add you to my list of "holding back the Tor Project from thinking bigger" people. But to clarify, this is not zillions of dollars, and I am not suggesting the Project itself deploy any relays, servers or bridges. Others like Amazon.com, Google, etc need to be convinced to do it.</div>
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