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US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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I didn't know that the government was funding these things to begin with, but I don't know many things.
Because foss projects like tor are regularly used by the agencies. It’s little money for a lot of work they don’t need to do.
Sounds like it may be time for some creative licensing