Want to do something more meaningful for Iran's dissidents than turning your Twitter avatar green? EFF would like you to run a TOR bridge or relay, which will allow Iranians, and others around the world, to communicate with enhanced privacy and secrecy. — Read the rest
Here's the final installment in the amazing Instructables series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother. This week, it's a HOWTO on TOR, The Onion Router, a technology for increasing your privacy and anonymity when you look at the web, and for getting around censorwalls. — Read the rest
Jacob sez,
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The Tor project was accepted into the Google Summer of Code program for 2008!The Tor project is looking for a few good happy mutants. Are you a hacker interested in contributing to a successful open source project? Do you qualify for the GSOC?
The Unwired Show has a great (and hilarious) little video explaining how to use TOR, The Onion Router, an anonymizing program that makes it much harder for bad guys to censor or snoop on your Internet connection.
(Thanks, Wil!
EFF is recruiting student programmers to do paid work on the onion router (TOR) this summer — this is a technology for anonymizing Internet connections. It's intended for use by people living in surveillance societies like China, Syria, and the average American high-school. — Read the rest
The computer security wonks and human rights advocates at Hacktivismo today released Torpark, a portable tool to keep web users' identities private. Think of it as anonymity on a stick. A privacy-pop! Snip from launch announcement:
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[The] anonymous, fully portable Web browser [is] based on Mozilla Firefox.
ScatterChat is a new hactivist program from the Cult of the Dead Cow. It's an anonymous chat program that combines gaim, an open source encrypted chat protocol, with TOR, an open source "onion router" that disguises the origin and destination of packets, so that no one can know what you're chatting, nor whom you're chatting with. — Read the rest
Steve sez, "TorPark is a combination of Firefox and the anonymizingTor Onion Router project. Sticking it on a USB stick allows you to bring not just a great browser wherever you go, but privacy as well!"
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I have the coolest job: my employer, EFF, is now officially doing development on Tor, an anonymizing network tool that lets people use the Internet without being snooped upon:
— Read the restYour traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers.
