Tor's Response to Prism Surveillance Program
Due to several requests received today from members of the press community and others we felt it was in the best interest of time and consistency to provide a statement regarding today's developments and stories surrounding the NSA Prism surveillance program.
The Tor Project is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing tools to help people manage their privacy on the Internet. Beyond our free, open source technology and extensive research we actively foster important conversations with many global organizations in order to help people around the world understand the value of privacy and anonymity online. As a result, members of the core Tor team and the greater Tor community are out in the world sharing knowledge and insights with countless individuals every day - many times handing out free Tor stickers; with no donation requested or expected. Edward Snowden, like tens of thousands of people, put Tor stickers on their devices. He likely got it at a conference from one of us in the past year.
Today, as always, the team at Tor remains committed to building innovative, sustainable technology solutions to help keep the doors to freedom of expression open.
For more on our view on this situation visit also our blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/prism-vs-tor.
For further questions please contact us at execdir@torproject.org.
Being in Cybersecuirty many
Being in Cybersecuirty many on-point responses are laser focused. However NSA, IRS and other agencies use TOR to mask (notice I did not say hide, mask is the head, hide is all) but I digress. The tails are good, if you want email that is gone, .guerrilla mail works great, BUT your other party better be able to get in <59 minutes or POOF. Fact is, this whole system is run by U.S., even Skype once thought to be secure.. Negative Ghost Rider.. Pattern is Full. I will stay with Uncle Phil Zimmerman and cut cookies on the fly. Not that I am hiding any bad behavior, my choice for people coming to my party. If anyone wants to go off the grid, well move VERY far up north and pay by gold. When you have ISP's, Telco's running fiber straight to Big Bro servers... well.. DAH! I have used a lot of proxies, this one is the quickest and they got rewarded for that.. if people do use this.. support them even if it is 1X, do not be a leach!
If you are referring to
If you are referring to Silent Circle, you don't think that the NSA has access to servers in Canada?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communication…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/nsa-dmitry-medvedev-g20-sum…
US and Commonwealth Of Nations members work closely with US security.
Like I said before why not
Like I said before why not make a TAN The alternate Net to rival the internet. Yes the power resources is one major problem but we can use this net base on these combo that I think is the best;
1. Freenet for basic infrastructure for internal relay and net connection
2. Garlic routing look alike for additional encryption layer I suggest using more than 1 encryption layers and finally
3. Tor look a like that have the same ability of anonymous connection but with the above combo has more security.
I'm not a programmer nor a tech savvy but should I'm then this what I shall do. This TAN is also can coexist with the internet while their main infrastructure is a peerless and serverless therefore you cannot track them down. Just use the sharing bandwith with all the users, the more the user then the bigger the bandwidth. Every connection made to this network shall have to share each one bandwith, or should any one have better ideas feel free to share.
The "you should not use Tor"
The "you should not use Tor" messages are all over the net. I wonder what dictatorship pays for that.
My post hopefully is above
My post hopefully is above this one, if not, reference to Ghost Rider. For those that support Follywood, I suggest the following movies to watch for the content. Notice the date stamp of them and where we are today. For the thinking and logical your response should be.. how the....
Enemy of the State
Sneakers
The Recruit where oddly enough notice how the data was removed.
Makes you wonder if Follywood has some inside track or mole. As said before, if you use Tor pitch in some $, not that I have Tor stock but they are hands down the best we are allowed to use. You also need to learn these 3 letters, PGP. If you think VMWare, MSVM or others will keep out OWL eyes, NEGATIVE GHOST RIDER!
Lastly, this is all about YOUR privacy, do what is right, shore up what others have tried to break down and protect what is ours. When Utah goes on-line, Katie bar the door!
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Starting yesterday I started
Starting yesterday I started getting Bad IP notices when connecting to Facebook. Today I started getting logged off and would be unable to reconnect, getting this message: "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." Any thoughts as to whether FB is blocking ToR?
use random SSL glype proxy
use random SSL glype proxy after TOR exit to access facebook
It would be interesting to
It would be interesting to know the % increase in Tor downloads after the Snowden story was published as compared to average # of Tor downloads before Snowden story.
If all new Tor users are client only, look for increased congestion on Tor network. Maybe some new users will choose to run relays or bridges if these options are noted by Tor project on the Download page as being the most anonymous ways to use Tor.
Brainwashed yank fucked up
Brainwashed yank fucked up hundreds years of democracy for The World Police State aka World Terrorist State.
CNBC is reporting a 33%
CNBC is reporting a 33% increase in DuckDuckGo search engine usage since the NSA story broke, I wonder how much of that 33% is because of TBB users?
If CNBC is publicly
If CNBC is publicly acknowledging DuckDuckGo, then I would not trust DuckDuckGo.
If any of the MSM's start publicly acknowledging Tor, then I will begin
to worry about Tor also.
How do I contribute to Tor?
How do I contribute to Tor?
I have a quick question. I
I have a quick question. I hope this is the right place to ask.
Please direct me elsewhere if I am in the wrong place.
When I use TOR browser bundle, I have noticed that my browser window
(when maximized) is reported to be of an unusual size that is some
small number of pixels less than my system screen resolution of
1600X1200. When I resize the TOR browser window, new size
information is transmitted to websites I visit. I see this by using
panopticlick.eff.org.
Panopticlick.eff.org indicates that this information on screen size
is causing my browser footprint to be fairly unique in that this
screen size is seen in only 1 out of every 1,500,000 browsers they
tested. Their test space was three million browsers tested.
On the ubuntu12.04LTS 64bit version of Firefox_21.0 I run which is
not TOR, the window size is seen by panopticlick as 1600X1200 no
matter what I resize the Firefox browser window to. This 1600X1200 setting is
used by 1 out of every 140 browsers they tested.
Transmitting this browser window/screen size information allows some
tracking of my internet use by the uniqueness of my browser footprint
when I use TOR bundle.
Is there a way for me to fix this on my end?
Thanks.
People worried that Tor was
People worried that Tor was developed by the US navy might be forgeting that the whole internet is based on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). And Advanced Research Projects Agency is now Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - AKA DARPA.
So if you use the logic that the US military made it then it is suspect then you should not use the internet for anything !!!!
Now might be a bad time to
Now might be a bad time to unbundle Vidalia from Tor Browser, because now setting up a relay is harder. Also, we can try to convince P2P file sharers to donate their network capacity to Tor instead of some leech wanting the latest film for free.
It doesn't matter who and/or
It doesn't matter who and/or where you are, the moment you connect 2 the internet your communications are in the hands of some secret agency or government. Big Brother is watching everyone!!
What surprises/wonders me is why these secret agency's/government's do nothing against:
- the distributors and collectors of child-pornography???
- banks & insurance-company's who are robbing our money and are at the base of the worldwide financial/economical crisis??
I guess that keeping our children save is no priority and that manufacturing and selling weapons is more provisional than stopping the crisis.
So War-on-Terror my ass, it's all about the money and the power!!!!
NSA doesn't give a rat's ass
NSA doesn't give a rat's ass about your girlfriends, porn surfing, or personal views. Do you really think they screen every packet that crosses every server, gleaning information about every person to build profiles on us all, so they can later use that information to control us? They and other government agencies sniff networks for packets containing specific words, phrases, and subject matter relating to national security. They have way too much data and much bigger fish to fry to worry about annonymous users passing stupid emails or downloading music and movies. Do some get caught? Sure they do. Should they be caught? The law says so. Piracy is illegal. If you're trying to get away with copyright infringement or espionage, you probably should be concerned, but if you think NSA, or any other federal agency is spying on everybody, you're just being paranoid.
Are tor and other annonymity tools valuable? Absolutely, but don't think you're protecting yourself from your own government. You're more likely to be a target of Microsoft, Google, or one of your geek buddies just wanti g to screw with somebody. If you don't break the law and don't conspire to do damage, the government isn't concerned with "spying" on you.
nice timing for an update on
nice timing for an update on macupdate. =0)
i'll cut it short.
surprising that all you commenters fail to see just a bit deeper and understand that tor and stuff is useful only as a filter of connections that ARE WORTH monitoring. ffs.
p.s.
because –#kitty tag doesn't always work
where can i get a sticker?
where can i get a sticker?
I'm guessing that the NSA
I'm guessing that the NSA PRISM story has turned your blogs into a soapbox for privacy advocates. Maybe that's why you haven't posted any comments for awhile. I'm sure you receive comments and I'm sure you have reasons for not posting them.
Because of prism and tempora
Because of prism and tempora a lot of users are starting to use tor now. I wonder if the tor network capacity could handle that. I just found this
http://igg.me/at/peermet
seems to be brand new, but looks promissing to me.
Guess I have to read
Guess I have to read everything about PRISM. However, the Funny/Interesting thing that I can share is about bugs in computers. I put a Great amount of validity in this information because it was randomly told to me when I was looking for an apartment.
So, in a remote rural area, looking at apartments around Oct. 2005, talking to this older man (who owned them). He was a talker; I thought talking would increase my chances to haggle the rent price.
Somehow we get on the computer/internet subject and he tells me a Friend of his was recently in China for computer sales or something. And, this friend of his said the new computers he saw had extra Un-required items inside.
It isn't difficult to see...if one is online 1) your exact position is known 2) information can be tapped/captured/decoded 3) receivers can capture sound
Another misnomer (related here) 911 "service" is simply a pinpoint location of You. It is not in regard to your best interest. I've called my state several times about 911 change of address and get comical unbelievable answers for why.
A change of address is when you (the individual) changes your address. You are not obligated to put in a change of address...you didn't change your address. The state did; the state needs to put in all of the changes of addresses that They changed.
i'm a little sceptical about
i'm a little sceptical about tor because the same government which runs prism supports tor with 2m$ annually.
What you *forgot* to say is,
What you *forgot* to say is, that Tor is financed by the US-government. What was it, CIA at first, Navy now? Uhhhhh And you say you are safe? Yeeaaah, right. I whish you were.
I need cookies to send a comment? Of course you also *forgot* cookies can be used for tracking?
"meet, face to face and talk
"meet, face to face and talk over coffee."
A little difficult to do that when the person you want to talk with lives halfway around the globe...