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Tor 2012 Annual Report

[Posted March 20, 2013 by ris]

The Tor Project has announced the availability of its 2012 annual report. (PDF) "Tor’s daily usage continues to increase in size and diversity, bringing secure, global channels of communication and privacy tools to journalists, law enforcement, governments, human rights activists, business leaders, militaries, abuse victims and average citizens concerned about online privacy." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Posted Mar 21, 2013 11:50 UTC (Thu) by gilboa (guest, #23856) [Link]

"... law enforcement, governments, human rights activists, business leaders, militaries, abuse victims, terrorists, crime organizations and average citizens concerned about online privacy."

There. Fixed it for you. *

- Gilboa
* Tor may or may not be necessary, but lets not being naive, it is being abused on a mass scale by people you don't want to meet in a dark corner in the middle of the night.

Tor 2012 Annual Report

Posted Mar 21, 2013 12:01 UTC (Thu) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]

Well, the definition of abuse is rather key to your assertion. And it will vary.

Besides, the same could certainly be said of email, the postal system, etc ad nauseum.

Tor is about safety for everybody, without exception.

Tor 2012 Annual Report

Posted Mar 21, 2013 16:07 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Street corners may or may not be necessary, but lets not being naive, they are being abused on a mass scale by people you don't want to meet in a dark corner in the middle of the night.