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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>
<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>
<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>Benedikt Wieder</strong> has contributed to a variety of open source projects ranging from artistic tools to security applications. During his bachelor studies in Computer Science he researched and worked with variations of the Kademlia distributed hash table (DHT) and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for use in secure communication.</p>
<h4>Past Contributors</h4>
<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>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><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>
<h4>Funding</h4>
<p>Briar has received funding from <a href="https://smallmedia.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small Media</a>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160413063937/https://www.openitp.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Open Internet Tools Project</a>, <a href="https://accessnow.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Access</a>, the <a href="https://www.opentech.fund/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Open Technology Fund</a>, the <a href="https://prototypefund.de/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prototype Fund</a>, and <a href="https://www.internews.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Internews</a>.</p>
<h4>Contact</h4>
<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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