Double Your Donation: Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas Announce Matching Challenge for #SupportTor

Thank you Rob and Lauren, you guys are just awesome! It's one thing to just write a check, another to put your face next to it. Tor needs more human faces, so this is very much appreciated.

Does this apply "automatically" to all donations made via the website https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate ?

Ah, Team Cymru... I remember when I heard of them: it's because they run stupid Conficker sinkholes that keep claiming my LINUX servers (who do web crawling and also some Tor relaying), are infected with the Windows-specific Conficker and sending them to Spamhaus's equality stupid CBL.

"The internet cannot heal itself in the face of tyrants," => Well Spamhaus are a bunch of tyrants so not helping them censor innocent servers would be nice.

I also have longstanding concerns about some of Dragon and Cymru Research's electronic activities as these impact Tor, and about some of their business relations.

@ Shari: I'd be very concerned if Rob Thomas or associates were given access to the list of names of all Tor donors, so please provide reassurance on this point.

If someone donates to Tor (a US entity subject to US tax laws), it may be very difficult to keep his/her identity anonymous to NSA, even if s/he uses electronic currency. But Tor certainly should never be giving that information away to an old friend whose company--- and some of its clients--- have long been a concern to many loyal Tor users.

Since the Thomas's have finally chosen to "decloak", I assume they are prepared to explain the apparent contradiction in their stated appreciation of Tor to Cymru's USG/contractor clients. I'd like to see them explain these apparent conflicts of interest to the Tor userbase too, perhaps in a guest blog here or an interview here similar to the Laura Poitras interview (but longer because they have much to explain).

At least one reader is prepared to hear them out with an open mind.

Rabbi Rob & Lauren
Thanks for supporting tor!

I was looking for some way to contribute money to getting tbb tor-browser-bundle onto a raspberrry pi 2B for download (perhaps with its own secure os)!!. (This may have already been done since i last had time to check!) This seems to be simple for some but beyond my abilities. I would start by aksing tor-project to give out RPI2's to developers - interested developers. The point is to get tor into the hands of the very poor as a way of making tor universal, secure,and perhaps even distributed at many points. Could you help me get my donation to torproject for this purpose?

I would be grateful.

AND

Matching would be truly awesome!

Anyway, Again THANKS!

The following question might sound OT, but please hear me out:

@ Rabbi Thomas:

Glenn Greenwald recounts attending the bat mitzvah of a family friend. The Rabbi instructed the girl to be good because God is always watching and judging her. Greenwald thought that the Rabbi was wrong, because people should try to do the right thing because it feels right, not because God is watching and judging.

This story seems significant because all the increasingly oppressive governments (US, UK, China) are rolling out "citizenship scores". That is, these governments want to be always watching and judging everything each citizen does, the better to discriminate against political dissidents and other "troublemakers". These days, it seems, Big Brother wants to become God.

So my question is: what would you say to counter the argument that most people will only do good if they feel they are always being watched and judged by some superhuman entity? The argument that Torah and Talmud somehow support the claim that Government as God is implementing the Dragnet "for our own (spiritual, material) well-being"?

Haters gonna hate.

Keep politics and religion out of this project, thanks.