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          <p><strong>Michael Rogers</strong> started the Briar project to support freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to privacy. He has studied and built peer-to-peer systems for over a decade and contributed to Freenet and LimeWire.</p>
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          <p><strong>Eleanor Saitta</strong> is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She has been working as a security consultant since 2003, specializing in security design and strategy, and makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex sociotechnical systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better.</p>
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          <p><strong>Torsten Grote</strong> is a Free Software activist and programmer. He studied computer science as well as philosophy and is interested in various topics of technology-enabled social and political change. As a member of the Free Software Foundation Europe, he ran their Free Your Android campaign to show people how they can use their mobile device securely and in freedom.</p>

          <p><strong>Julian Dehm</strong> is an advocate of freedom of speech and movement. He studies computer science at Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on security and privacy. He's contributing to Briar in his spare time and is working on a funded project to improve Briar's battery usage and message delivery even when contacts are not online at the same time.</p>

          <p><strong>Ernir Erlingsson</strong> has been building mobile applications on multiple platforms for over a decade. He is a full stack developer, and an avid supporter of open-source software, with a keen interest in theoretical computer science and algorithms.</p>

          <p><strong>Bernard Tyers</strong> is an independent interaction designer and user researcher. He is interested in privacy and applying user-centred design to usable security. He is a long-time supporter of the Open Rights Group, Tor and free software projects.</p>

          <p><strong>Jack Grigg</strong> is a core developer of the I2P anonymity network and lead developer of I2P Android. He has a keen interest in privacy and anonymity research, and enjoys helping other developers create privacy-respecting software. He is also a budding UX enthusiast and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Lincoln University, New Zealand.</p>
          <p>Briar has received funding from <a href="https://smallmedia.org.uk/">Small Media</a>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160413063937/https://www.openitp.org/">Open Internet Tools Project</a>, <a href="https://accessnow.org/">Access</a>, the <a href="https://www.opentech.fund/">Open Technology Fund</a>, and the <a href="https://prototypefund.de/">Prototype Fund</a>.</p>
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          <p>To contact the team, please email <a href="mailto:contact@briarproject.org">contact@briarproject.org</a> [<a href="keys/contact.asc">PGP key</a>].</p>
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