Peter B. Collins Presents Investigative Journalist Yasha Levine
Despite smears and even a death threat, Yasha Levine continues to probe the origins and funding of Tor, Open Whisper Systems, CryptoCat and other internet privacy applications. He reviews the Cold War origins of the Broadcast Board of Governors (BBG), the state department arm best known for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. He reveals that BBG now feeds the Open Technology Fund(OTF), and OTF’s budget was tripled in 2014. In turn, OTF funded Tor in 2014 in excess of $1 million. The central question: can we trust encryption systems funded largely by America’s propaganda machinery?
*Yasha Levine is an investigative reporter for Pando, where this story is posted. He’s crowd funding the independent publication of a new book, Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Google-Military Complex.
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