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[or-cvs] streamline the frontpage
Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website/en
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/website/en
Modified Files:
index.wml
Log Message:
streamline the frontpage
Index: index.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/en/index.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -p -d -r1.12 -r1.13
--- index.wml 26 Jan 2006 23:37:35 -0000 1.12
+++ index.wml 14 Feb 2006 19:20:28 -0000 1.13
@@ -36,29 +36,24 @@ built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy
</p>
<p>
-Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications
-are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called
-<a href="<page overview>">onion routers</a>.
-Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against
-"traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal
+Tor defends against <a href="<page overview>">traffic analysis</a>,
+a form of network surveillance that threatens personal
anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships,
and state security.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Instead of looking at the content of your communications, traffic analysis
-tracks where your data goes and when, as well as how much is sent.
-Tor aims to make traffic analysis more difficult by preventing websites,
-eavesdroppers, and even the onion routers themselves from tracing your
-communications online. This means Tor lets you decide whether to identify
-yourself when you communicate.
+Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called
+onion routers, <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#WhatProtections">protecting you</a>
+from websites that build profiles of your interests,
+local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit,
+and even the onion routers themselves</a>.
</p>
<p>
Tor's security is improved as its user base grows and as
more people volunteer to run servers. Please consider
<a href="<page volunteer>">volunteering your time</a> or
-<a href="<cvssandbox>tor/doc/tor-doc-server.html">volunteering your bandwidth</a>.
+<a href="<cvssandbox>tor/doc/tor-doc-server.html">volunteering your
+bandwidth</a>.
And remember that this is development code—it's not a good idea to rely
on the current Tor network if you really need strong anonymity.
</p>