Tor Project loses a third of staff in coronavirus cuts: Unlucky 13 out as nonprofit hacks back to core ops This week in The Reg's security roundup of the notable bits beyond what we've already covered, the Tor Project has cut back to its core team, Zoom has called in the big security guns, US tech firms are taking on its Congress – and more. First off, it has been a bad weekend for 13 staffers at the nonprofit Tor Project after …
No they were not - they were sacked. 'Let go' suggests that they wanted to leave and were forgiven a minimum notice period, or something.
Please can we not have the corporate euphemisms that suggest that they always smell of roses. In this case I understand why they were sacked, but they were not 'let go'.
El Reg - please say it as it is.
TOR is funded by donations from big corps a few ordinary users.
Big corps are now locking down and not spending money on anything, ordinary users are either unemployed or staring unemployment in the face.
There is no reasonable chance of these factors being reversed in the next few months.
As a nonprofit they can't run up a massive overdraft or get VC funding or print their own cryptocoins - they have very strict rules about their accounts
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