Roger Dingledine, co-founder of the Tor Project, the nonprofit behind the Tor anonymous-browsing network.
The engine treats him as the civilian, research-organization face put on top of anonymity technology that was originally funded and developed by the state.
He co-founded Tor Project Inc. in December 2006 and was its lead public maintainer through the 2020s; the underlying onion-routing tech traces back to the US Naval Research Laboratory.
It illustrates how state-built infrastructure gets a trusted independent-nonprofit face, blurring the line between government tools and grassroots privacy tech.