Category: #tor
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Tor executive director hints at Firefox integration
The Tor anonymity network may soon expand to hundreds of millions of new users around the world as the software’s developers prepare to scale to a “global population.” Several major tech firms are in talks with Tor to include the software in products that can potentially reach over 500 million Internet users around the world. […]
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jlund/streisand · GitHub
An interesting new project to try on a Raspberry Pi: Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared […]
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Apple protecting its customers
Word has it todaythat anyone going to the Tor website is tracked by the NSA after that. So if you clicked that link, you’re now a high value target for the NSA. Just by coincidence I past the Apple store in Amsterdam today to ask for a new battery for my laptop. Out of curiosity […]
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Your own private dropbox with free software | The Guardian Project
For our shared files, we use SparkleShare. It provides an experience very similar to Dropbox: you have a SparkleShare folder that is synced up with the service, and in turn any other users who are also linked up to it. Once its setup, it is as easy to use as Dropbox, but setting it up […]
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Phones as swords, lovers, robots and spies
Highlighting the diversity of perception and perspective when it comes to mobile media, Freitas first spoke of the phone as a sword, with users now gaining great potential to change, damage and restrict existing structures every time they take hold of these ostensibly innocuous devices. Then there is the idea of the mobile as something […]
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The crypto dream
We’re living in a world where it’s possible to visit Tokyo without ever leaving your bed, and where governments go to war with software rather than tanks. Yet in some ways the real future is more Stephen King than William Gibson. The plane landed; nobody was on board.[…]There are a few amazingly bright spots in […]