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The overarching mission of the US-based non-profit organization the Tor Project is to advance human rights and make open-source, privacy preserving software available to people globally, so that they can browse the internet privately, protect themselve… Continue reading Delivering privacy in a world of pervasive digital surveillance: Tor Project’s Executive Director speaks out
The Tor Project has brought major censorship circumvention and usability changes to the latest release of Tor Browser. The Tor team is on a mission to make Tor easier to use for everyone through user experience improvements based on research with users… Continue reading Tor Browser 10.5 improves circumvention for Tor users in censored places
Big stuff! Russia’s SVR has recently launched a Dark Web onion Web site similar to SecureDrop for the purpose of enticing citizens and individuals into submitting information regarding threats facing Russia. Users are enticed into visiting the … Continue reading Russia’s SVR Launches “SecureDrop” Similar National Security Threats Soliciting Web Site on the Dark Web – An Analysis
The Tor Project, the nonprofit developers of the Tor network and Tor Browser, have announced two exciting developments for onion services: affordable DV certificates for v3 onion sites from HARICA, and new, easy onion site setup guides. About Tor Milli… Continue reading How to get affordable DV certificates for onion sites
The Tor Project, the research-education nonprofit organization that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, has announced a membership program to secure funding that will allow them to “be more agile” when it comes to software dev… Continue reading Tor Project launches program to secure funding for software development
The Tor Project has released the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android. The release is referred to as version 8.5, mainly to prevent confusion: Tor Browser releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux are currently on that version. About Tor Br… Continue reading Official Tor Browser for Android available on Google Play
The Tor Project has been waiting for an opportunity like this. The privacy-focused organization for years has been developing technology to help web users browse the internet without prying eyes of repressive governments or Silicon Valley giants. Surveillance and the collection of personal data continues to be a fundamental problem for internet users, as evidenced by the number of data breaches in recent months involving information about hundreds of millions of people. Tor now has a new leadership team which aims to use the growing awareness about the proliferation of personal data as fuel for the privacy’s organization’s growth. That team just needs to figure out how to pay for it. The research-based nonprofit that’s responsible for the Tor browser — a free software tool that obscures a user’s location, browsing activity and other identifying data — gets funding from the U.S. government. First developed by the U.S. military to […]
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via Sean Gallagher, writing at Ars Technica, comes this particularly unfortunate news for Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) MDM (Mobile Device Management) bits – especially considering there will be a flood of new devices into many orgs. On the plus side, the… Continue reading MDM Brute Forced
Version 8 of Tor Browser, the multiplatform browser that routes traffic through the Tor anonymity network, has been released this week. About the Tor Browser and this latest version The Tor Browser is based on a modified Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser… Continue reading Tor Browser 8 is out: What’s new?
via Lucian Armasu, writing at Tom’s Hardware, comes news of Project Fusion, a partnership – if-you-will of the Tor Project and Mozilla, in an effort to provision enhanced privacy and security to the Open Source browser. Today’s Must Read!
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