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News Orgs & Activists: Onionize Your Sites Against Censorship

Launching an onion address is a preventative measure for news organizations and activists to take against censorship around the world.

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The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose

Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us.

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The Tor Social Contract

At The Tor Project, we make tools that help promote and protect the essential human rights of people everywhere.

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Q and A with An East African Human Rights Activist

 Can you tell us about your work?

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UN Special Rapporteur: Anonymity Is Gateway to Free Expression

We at the Tor Project have long

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Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is released!

Hi! There's a new Tor alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.3.4.1-alpha from the usual place on the website. If you don't build Tor from source, just wait: Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release some time in the coming weeks.

Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report more bugs than usual.

(And don't worry -- we haven't forgotten about 0.3.3 -- there should be a stable 0.3.3 release pretty soon now.)

Here's what's new since 0.3.3.x series!

Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners, improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous other small features and bugfixes.

Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17

New system requirements:
- Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
- The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default. To disable the module, the configure option --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.

Tor Browser 8.0a7 is released

Tor Browser 8.0a7 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our

Tor Browser 7.5.4 is released

Tor Browser 7.5.4 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our