The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors

The interesting part is:<p>Roger, Nick Mathewson, Meredith Hoban Dunn, Ian Goldberg, Julius Mittenzwei, Rabbi Rob Thomas, Wendy Seltzer are out of the board. Roger and Nick will stay as Tor&#x27;s research leads.<p>The new board consists of Cindy Cohn (EFF), Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze, Gabriella Colemn, Linus Nordberg. Two seats have yet to be filled.<p>EDIT<p>Just to avoid confusion: This comment was written before the submission link was changed from a NY Times article that buried the information about the changes in the last paragraph to the Tor Project blog post.

It&#x27;s very unusual to have such a complete change of board membership, isn&#x27;t it? I&#x27;m all for new blood, but I&#x27;d worry at the near-total loss of continuity.

Matt Blaze is a credible and reassuring choice.

Since Roger and Nick knew about the allegations and (in the opinion of some) turned a blind eye to them, Shari may have wanted to to articulate some sort of sea change.<p>But they probably <i>also</i> knew (from a look at their commit logs, it&#x27;s pretty obvious) that the technical work could not continue without them. So it strikes me as a pragmatic compromise.

The head of the EFF, Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze...this is an A-list group right here. Color me impressed.

Blog post from the Tor Project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tor-project-elects-new-board%C2%A0-directors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tor-project-elects-new-boar...</a>