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BBC News launches 'dark web' mirror
In a bid to thwart censorship attempts, the BBC News website is now available via Tor.
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Ditch your phone's built-in web browser for these seven alternatives
Your phone comes with a built-in web browser—Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS. But if you switch to an alternative app, you can protect your privacy, save data, navigate faster, and more.
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Tor Project "Almost 100% Funded By The US Government": FOIA
The Tor Project - a private nonprofit known as the "NSA-proof" gateway to the "dark web," turns out to be almost "100% funded by the US government" according to documents obtained by investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine. "I discovered that Tor was not a grassroots. I was able to show that despite its indie radical cred and claims to help its users protect themselves from government surveillance online, Tor was almost 100% funded by three U.S. National Security agencies"
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Tor “can’t build free and open source tools” and stop racists from using them
Ironically, the Tor software has been designed and written by a diverse team of people. We are everything they claim to despise. And we work every day to defend the human rights they oppose.
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To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website. The case, United States v. Jay Michaud, is one of nearly 200 cases nationwide that have raised new questions about the appropriate limitations on the government’s ability to hack criminal suspects. Michaud marks just the second time that prosecutors have asked that case be dismissed.
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What is the Tor Project & Is it Safe
2017 Using the Tor Project to keep yourself anonymous and safe while using the Internet may not be the safest thing to do. You may be asking to be hacked by the best hackers in the world.
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Tor-developed smartphone app will detect internet censorship and surveillance
The Tor Project, responsible for software that enables anonymous Internet use and communication, is launching a new mobile app to detect internet censorship and surveillance around the world. The app, called “OONIProbe,” alerts users to the blocking of websites, censorship and surveillance systems and the speed of networks. Slowing internet speeds down to a crawl is one way governments censor internet content they deem illegal. The app also spells out how users might be able to circumvent the blockage.
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ProtonMail adds Tor onion site to fight risk of state censorship
Swiss-based PGP end-to-end encrypted email provider, ProtonMail, now has an onion address, allowing users to access its service via a direct connection to the..
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Unsealed Warrant Shows FBI Malware Affected Innocent Tor Users While Agency Ran More Than 20 Child Porn Sites
In 2013, the FBI received permission to hack over 300 specific users of dark web email service TorMail. But now, after the warrants and their applications have finally been unsealed, experts say the agency illegally went further, and hacked perfectly legitimate users of the privacy-focused service. “That is, while the warrant authorized hacking with a scalpel, the FBI delivered their malware to TorMail users with a grenade,” Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told Motherboard in an email.
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German magazine “konkret” interviews Yasha Levine about Tor, spies and the cult of crypto
German leftwing magazine konkret published an interview with me on the the dark origins of the Tor Project, Jacob Applebaum and the normalization of sexual abuse inside the privacy community, the rightwing origins of the cult of crypto, the corruption of Internet activism, and lots of other topics.
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Illegal Wildlife Traders Aren't Welcome on the Dark Web
Wildlife traders attempting to use the dark web to illegally flog rare and exotic animals are getting flamed by other users, a privacy expert has told Motherboard. Joss Wright, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, said that during his research on wildlife trade in anonymous marketplaces, he found that traders suggesting sales of live animals are usually met with “vitriol.”
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Jacob Appelbaum, Digital Rights Activist, Leaves Tor Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Some say the Tor Project was silent for far too long.
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FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demanding She Meet With Them, But Refusing To Explain Why
Isis Agora Lovecruft is a lead software developer for Tor and has worked on Tor for many years, as well as other security and encryption products, And, apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won't tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why.
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Facebook’s Tor site is surprisingly popular, with 1 million users in a month
Facebook offers direct access over Tor, a service for browsing the Web anonymously. Last month, 1 million people accessed the social network that way.
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Judge confirms what many suspected: Feds hired CMU to break Tor
A 1992 case about paper shredders may also shed some light on Tor privacy question. By Cyrus Farivar.
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The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
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Justice Department to Judge: Tor Users Have No Expectation of Privacy
The judge who authorized the FBI to hack 1,300 dark web users under a single warrant seems to be pretty confused about how the anonymity software Tor works. Newly unsealed documents suggest that the confusion stems from the US Department of Justice's own arguments. In the documents, the DOJ argues that Tor users have no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to their IP address. This is the same argument that the judge...
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Tor Project: The super secure anonymity network that will definitely keep you safe (as long as hackers don’t break the rules)
A lot has happened to Tor since I last reported on it, and not much of it good. By Yasha Levine.
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Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid for Tor-Breaking Research
Since Carnegie Mellon's researchers pulled their talk on cracking the protections of the anonymity software Tor from the schedule of the Black Hat security conference in 2014, the university has been nearly silent about rumors that their technique ended up in the FBI’s hands. Now the university has finally spoken up—to deny the Tor Project’s claim that the FBI paid Carnegie Mellon for their Tor-breaking method.
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OnionDNS: A Seizure-Resistant Top-Level Domain [2015] [PDF]
2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) The Domain Name System (DNS) provides the critical service of mapping canonical names to IP addresses. Recognizing this, a number of parties have increasingly attempted to perform “domain seizures” on targets by having them delisted from DNS. Such operations often occur without providing due process to the owners of these domains, a practice made potentially worse by recent legislative proposals. ...
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