Tor is made by the Tor Project, a nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is an Internet anonymity app that runs on your computer and hides your identity as you browse the Internet. Tor was initially developed by military researchers in the mid-1990s at the U.S. Naval Laboratory in Washington D.C. It was spun off as a quasi-independent nonprofit in 2004 but continued to receive most of its funding through contracts coming from three branches of the U.S. National Security State: the U.S. Navy, the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an old CIA spinoff set up during the Cold War to wage psychological warfare and regime change ops against countries deemed hostile to U.S. security and economic interests. To date, Tor has received over $10 million in federal contracts. It even has its own federal contractor number.

Signal is an encrypted chat app you can download for use on your Android and iPhone. Signal was created by the same spooky regime change outfits that fund the Tor Project. The money primarily comes through the federal government’s premier Internet Freedom venture capital outfit: Open Technology Fund, which works closely with the State Department’s regime change arm and is funded through several layers of Cold War CIA cutouts — including Radio Free Asia and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. You won’t find it anywhere on Open Whisper System’s website, but Signal depends on NatSec cash for continued survival. Exactly how much cash is hard to gauge, as Open Whisper System refuses to disclose its financing structure. But if you tally up documents released by Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund, we know Marlinspike’s outfit received $2.26 million in the span of the past three years — not exactly pocket change. And the NatSec cashflow shows no sign of ending.

Signal, like Tor, is bankrolled by the soft-power wing of the U.S. National Security State as part of a larger “Internet Freedom” initiative — an attempt to leverage the Internet and digital communication tools as a compliment to more traditional elements of psychological warfare and regime change ops.

Via https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privacy-tools-are-not-going-to-protect-us-from-president-trump