Yeah, but CMU allegedly got paid a pretty big chunk of money for it. If they were just doing research, whatever. But $1m? That's a whole lot of taxpayer money.
$1M is not a lot of money. That's not nation state money; that's Tim Tebow money.
That's irrelevant to his point.
Not entirely. A lot of universities get taxpayer money to do research, and $1m is not out of the normal range for research funding in science and technology.
In this context, $1mm is chump change.
Well TOR is also funded by taxpayer money...
My point was "this is more money than CMU should have gotten for looking into the Tor network, especially from the FBI" rather than "taxpayers paid for this"
In the government contracting world, $1m is an absolutely tiny program - keep in mind that this covers not only the research, but also all the overhead / facilities / computers / keeping the lights on stuff.
$1m will cover something like 3-4 staff for about a year. Less, if they're senior people.