At this date (on March 18th,
2018), we would like to make an update about The TOR Project Inc. As we shown on
our paper “OSINT Analysis of the TORFoundation”, we worked on the funds and proved that the US government is
deeply involve with arpproximatly 85% of the funds in 2015.
But since this
year, we do not have any data to study. Be searching information, we found that
the Form 990 which is mandatory for every 501(c)(3) research-education
nonprofit organization as The TOR Project Inc is, is not available. This form
need to be released the 15th of the 5th month after the fiscal year with a
possible extension of 3 month according to several sources (https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/annual-exempt-organization-return-due-date
for example). Even with this extension, the form 990 of the fiscal year of 2016
of The TOR Project Inc. is supposed to be due on August 15th 2017.
However, we are still not able to find it. It is neither present on the website
of The TOR Project Inc. unlike all others form 990 and neither on diverse
sources like GuideStar (https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-8096820)
or ProPublica (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/208096820).
Furthermore, by doing some complementary
OSINT work, we found that Andrew Lewman was part of the CyAN (Cybersecurity and
cybercrime Advisors Network) organization. Just a few reminders: first, Andrew
Lewmann was the former Executive Director of The TOR Project Inc. Secondly, we
had some reasons to believe that the US government has strong links with The
TOR Project Inc. via Roger Dingledine who made an internship in NSA and with
some presentations in front of high authorities like the White House and the
FBI.
On the CyAN website, we have found the profile of Andrew Lewman and a link to
his Linkedin page. On both sources, he claims to have connections with the US
government such as several intelligence agencies, NSA or the Department of
Homeland Security. We do not know since when he has these connection but doubt
is allowed.
To summarize, since the beginning of The TOR Project Inc. in 2006,
both of the creator (Roger Dingledine) and the Executive Director (Andrew
Lewman) had connections to the US government. Andrew Lewman quit the board in
2015, such as Roger Dingledine in 2016.