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Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services

Posted by samzenpus on from the price-of-privacy dept.

apexcp writes The web's biggest anonymity network is considering a crowdfunding campaign to overhaul its hidden services. From the article: "In the last 15 months, several of the biggest anonymous websites on the Tor network have been identified and seized by police. In most cases, no one is quite sure how it happened. The details of such a campaign have yet to be revealed. With enough funding, Tor could have developers focusing their work entirely on hidden services, a change in developer priorities that many Tor users have been hoping for in recent years."

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  1. confusion about what TOR is for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Traffic analysis and other techniques make you trivially de-anonymized by the NSA.

    TOR is NOT anonymous, and anyone who thinks it is deserves what they get. But what it IS good for is hiding from non-5-eyes countries. Say you are in the middle east and your third world government doesn't like you reading pr0n. No problem, the NSA isn't gonna hang your ass out to dry for that, and they certainly wont compromise their capabilities for stupid political shit. So TOR away all you want, to keep yourself safe from your local tinpot dictator.

    That's what TOR is for. It's NOT for somehow magically keeping your identity secret from the people who invented it and own much of the network.