Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA

Patrick O'Neill writes: After years of relative neglect, Tor has been able to dedicate increasing time and resources to its hidden services thanks to funding in part by DARPA, as well as an upcoming crowdfunding campaign. DARPA's funding lasts 1-3 years and covers several projects including security and usability upgrades that close the gap between hidden services and the everyday Internet. "Next-generation hidden services may be run from multiple hosts to better deal with denial of service attacks and high traffic in general, a potentially big power boost that further closes the gap between the Dark Net and normal websites. ... Hidden services, which make up about 4 percent of the entire Tor network, have until recently been relatively neglected when it comes to funding and developing."

Comments

Re:More criminality

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly right. The drug war and the 'think of the children' meme are two of the worst things about the US. We could stop a lot of harm if we abolished them both.

Re:Trus but verify... not

[meta-monkey]

The truly gifted insight of the Founding Fathers was that pretty much everybody who wants power is sociopath, so they split up the powers of government into different branches, offices, and institutions, all with checks and balances on each other. Essentially saying "maybe regular people can just get on with their lives while the sociopaths over here fight it out with the sociopaths over there." Even different parts of the DoD have different budgets and competing interests, so there's hope.

That said, what I found truly, pants-crappingly heart-stoppingly terrifying about the Snowden revelations was the reactions of politicians in the aftermath, that they were all basically united. So far off script. If Obama announced he liked ice cream, I'd expect John Boehner to hold an immediate press conference about how evil secret muslim atheist communists like ice cream, and real Americans eat their apple pie no "a la mode" which sounds French, and therefore cowardly. But when that shit came out? No blaming Obama for "stealin' yer freedoms!" from the Repubs, and no "Nuh uh, huh uh Bush did it!" from the Dems. Just lockstep "Everything's fine here! Programs are all legal, and well over-seen! Bipartisan, too!"

When Obama, and McCain, and Feinstein, and Cheney, all agree on something, be very, very afraid...