Page 20 - Tor Project News Today

This is just one way that we can meet donors where they are,’ said one Jewish fundraiser.

Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to run Tor nodes, routing internet traffic in order to safeguard privacy and avoid country-level...

San Francisco, California—Boosting protection of Internet users’ personal data from snooping advertisers and third-party trackers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced it has enhanced its groundbreaking HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo...

Providers make big promises VPNs are now readily available to everyone. Corresponding programs are available free of charge. VPN apps even top some charts. But users usually dont think about the risks in this situation. VPN apps are plentiful, and the providers promises are great. If you install their software on your cell phone, you can go online particularly securely, they say. And they promise that your personal data can no longer be accessed by potentially malevolent forces. What is clear: ...

Section 230, which turned 25 years old this month, has played a central role in shaping the internet. Over the past year, Congress has introduced several proposals to change the law — some of them drastic — but the bills have often focused on a handful of very large tech companies like Facebook and Google. In reality, Section 230 has created a lot of the web as we know it. On Monday, March 1st, we’re holding an event on Section 230 and the future of tech regulation. After a keynote from S...

22 February 2021, 7:35 pm EST By   ( Screenshot from Tor Browser ) Developers of the highly used privacy-focused browser known as the Brave web browser had to frantically scamper in order to fix a certain bug that actually prevented the browser from leaking certain visited Tor addresses in the DNS traffic. The popular anonymous browser known as Brave had actually spo...

Wednesday, February 03, 2021 by: Mike Adams Bypass censorship by sharing this link: https://www.afinalwarning.com/494038.html (Natural News) As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launches a war against Big Tech censorship, it’s increasingly obvious that tech giants like Google, Facebook and YouTube will soon have to deliver different content results to the “free” states where censorship is banned. Yet those same tech giants will simultaneously deliver heavily censored, limited content res...

Anonymous browser Tor recently reported that crypto donations surged in 2020. The browser saw a 23% increase in donations made in crypto, which make up for 26% of total donations. BTC remains the most popular coin, with ETH and XMR sharing the second place. Anonymous browser Tor, also known as The Tor Project, has seen a major increase in donations made in cryptocurrency in 2020. The project recently published an announcement that says that crypto donations have surged by 23% last year. 26% of ...

The DarkNet gets Darker Digital Citizens Alliance just released a study of the “DarkNet” revealing a growth in limitless marketplaces. For those unfamiliar with the DarkNet, Deep Web, or Tor Network it is essentially an alternative version of the “surface” Internet that we all use. The ability to navigate through this anonymous web was made simple by the Tor Project (Tor ia an acronym for The Onion Router). The Tor Project was actually funded by the U.S. Government “to aid democracy a...

Are there legitimate reasons to seek out the dark web? Sure. We explain what's on the dark web, how to access it and why you'll want to proceed with a healthy dose of caution.