Quote from: Delta11 on August 26, 2012, 02:15 amQuote from: pine on August 25, 2012, 04:16 pmBy failing mostly. Tor, while obviously imperfect as kmfkewn will inform you, is an extremely impressive piece of software. The more I examine it's capabilities, the more impressive it is.Didn't the U.S. Defense Department create it? or at least fund it? I forgot where I read that but I always kept it in mind. I feel like the more that people use TOR the more powerful/unstoppable it becomes and of course the same goes for Bitcoin. The other day I read an article about why you should use TOR and it made a lot of sense, I hope enough to make common users use it as well. Yes, actually the advanced military research wing of the US government (it has sponsored a great many weird and wonderful bluesky projects, for which we the public can all be thankful to them for, I wish half the maintenance on nuclear rearming was instead spent by DARPA on research projects and to help the NSF, but sadly it is not to be). Pretty much the only wing of government I'd be happy to pay much more tax to and not less, it's a pity we can't select what branches of government we commit resources to, that would be seriously innovative (and controversial lol). Anyway, the Tor project was initially sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and DARPA (which also sponsored the Internet itself). After that it was spun out to the wider world, again, just as with the Internet technology, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sponsored it for a while until the Tor project was out of the cradle and deployable for serious work. I'm not sure if the Tor project still receives grant money from the ONR, DARPA and the EFF, but in any case they can always do with donations if you experience good fortune.I have some (still mewling pups/kittens) ideas for a system like Tor of my own, based on some rather obscure/poorly understood concepts from the world of econ theory which would turn the network's meta information flow into a sophisticated price system that would run itself in an organic way like the stock exchanges. The implications of being able to harness market power in service to such a network are actually terrifyingly cool.However I know nowhere near enough about the Tor network to even have a remote possibility of putting any of those ideas into practice, so I have a lot of work to do if any of them are to reach fruition. So many projects, and so little time ._.