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Author: arma
Date: 2007-01-25 01:27:01 -0500 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007)
New Revision: 9402
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-#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Who uses Tor?"
-
-<div class="main-column">
-
-<h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
-
-<h2> People like you use Tor every day to...</h2>
-
-<ul>
-<li> ...protect their privacy from marketers </li>
-
-<p>Anonymity helps defeat marketing that doesn't have your permissions.
-There are all kinds of unscrupulous marketing techniques that track your
-activity through cookies, web bugs, and malware by using your IP address
-to build marketing databases, often selling your private information
-without your permission. Tor helps defeat a number of these violations
-of your privacy.</p>
-
-<li> ...preserve their kids' safety online</li>
-
-<p>“I'm proud my mom and dad let me stay alone at home now.”
-You've told your kids they shouldn't share personally identifying
-information online, but they may be sharing their location simply
-by not concealing their IP address from predators. Increasingly, IP
-numbers can be literally mapped to street locations, and in the US the
-government is pushing to get this mapping closer and closer to your
-street address. What if a predator heard your child was alone, and
-called up the satellite view of your address to find the best approach
-from the back of the property?</p>
-
-<li> ...research sensitive topics</li>
-
-<p>There's a wealth of information available online. Perhaps, in your
-country, access to information on AIDS, birth control, Tibetan culture,
-or world religions may be restricted inside a national firewall.
-Or perhaps are you afraid that if you research a particular set of
-symptoms, at some later date an insurance company could establish that
-you had suspicions of a pre-existing condition? Want to research airline
-security statistics or animal rights without the risk that your national
-security authorities are going to think you are a terrorist? </p>
-
-<li> ...find out how other folks live</li>
-
-<p>Tor, in combination with Blossom, allows you to see the World Wide
-Web from a specific perspective. Want to see Google come up in Polish?
-If you ask to leave the Tor cloud at a Polish Tor server, you'll see what
-Poland sees online. Want to check the differential pricing offered by
-an online retailer or wholesaler to folks in another country, compared
-to the pricing offered to you or your company? Tor and Blossom can
-provide that window to the world, also.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Journalists use Tor</h2>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Reporters without Borders</li>
-
-<p><a href="www.rsf.org">Reporters without Borders </a> advises
-journalists, sources, bloggers, and dissidents online to use Tor to
-ensure their privacy. RSF tracks internet prisoners of conscience and
-jailed or harmed journalists all over the world.</p>
-
-<li> IBB/Voice of America/Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Asia</li>
-
-<p>IBB recommends Tor for Internet users in countries that can not get
-safe access to free media. Tor not only protects freedom of expression,
-but preserves the ability of persons behind national firewalls or under
-the surveillance of repressive regimes to view information that gives
-a global perspective on democracy, economics, religion, and other vital
-topics to a full global perspective on culture.</p>
-
-<li> MediaGiraffe</li>
-
-<p>A conference for people in the media “willing to
-stick their necks out” recently asked Tor executive
-director, Shava Nerad, to lead a discussion of identity
-and anonymity for journalists online, and profiled <a
-href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Shava_Nerad";>here.</a></p>
-
-<li> Reporters in sensitive locations</li>
-
-<p>Reporters in sensitive environments can use Tor to be more secure in
-filing their stories.</p>
-
-<li> sources</li>
-
-<p>Journalists' sources often use Tor to report sensitive information,
-or to discuss items with journalists from sensitive locations.</p>
-
-<li> whistleblowers</li>
-
-<p>Likewise, whistleblowers use Tor to safely leave tips on governmental
-and corporate malfeasance.
-
-<li> citizen journalism</li>
-
-<p>Citizen journalists in China and “other Internet black
-holes” use Tor to write about local events and to encourage social
-change and political reform, more secure that there will not be a knock
-on their door at midnight.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Human rights workers use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Reporting human rights violations from within their country of origin
-is a task for peaceful warriors. It takes courage and a good eye to risk
-mitigation. Human rights activists use Tor to anonymously report from
-danger zones. Internationally, labor rights workers use Tor and other
-forms of online and offline anonymity to organize workers in accordance
-with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Are they within the law?
-But, does that mean they are safe?</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li> Human Rights Watch</li>
-
-<p>In their report “Race to the Bottom Corporate
-Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship,” a study
-co-author interviewed Roger Dingledine, Tor principal developer,
-on Tor use. They cover Tor in the section on how to breach the <a
-href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/3.htm#_Toc142395820";>“Great
-Firewall of China ”</a></p>
-
-<a href="http://hrw.org/doc/?t=internet";>web site</a>
-
-<p>Human Rights Watch recommends Tor for human rights workers throughout
-the globe for “secure browsing and communications.”</p>
-
-<p>Tor has been invited to create a training for HRW field agents to be
-delivered this fall in NYC.</p>
-
-<li> Amnesty International</li>
-
-<p>Tor has consulted and volunteered help to Amnesty International's
-recent corporate responsibility campaign, http://irrepressible.info/,
-see also their full report on China Internet issues at
-http://irrepressible.info/static/pdf/FOE-in-china-2006-lores.pdf</p>
-
-<li> Global Voices</li>
-
-<p>Global Voices can't stop recommending Tor throughout their <a
-href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=DVFC,DVFC:1970--2,DVFC:en&q=+site:www.globalvoicesonline.org+global+voices+tor";>
-web site.</a></p>
-
-<li> 10% for corruption</li>
-
-<p>A contact of ours who works with a public health nonprofit in
-Africa reports that his nonprofit must budget 10% to cover various
-sorts of corruption, mostly bribes and such. When that percentage
-rises steeply, not only can they not afford the money, but they can
-not afford to complain -- this is the point at which open objection can
-become dangerous. So his nonprofit is trying to figure out how to use
-Tor to safely whistleblow on governmental corruption in order to continue
-their work more effectively and safely.</p>
-
-<li> Labor organizers in the US and overseas</li>
-
-<p>At a recent conference a Tor staffer ran into a woman who came from
-a “company town ” in a mountainous area of the
-eastern United States. She was attempting to blog anonymously to rally
-local residents to urge reform on the company that dominated the towns
-economic and governmental affairs, fully cognizant that the kind of
-organizing she was doing could lead to harm or “fatal
-accidents.”</p>
-
-<p>In east Asia, some labor organizers use anonymity to reveal information
-regarding sweatshops that produce goods for western countries and to
-organize local labor.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2>People with high profile community roles use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Does being in the public spotlight shut you off from having a private
-life, forever, online? A rural lawyer in a small New England state keeps
-an anonymous blog because, with the diverse clientele at his prestigious
-law firm, his political beliefs are bound to offend someone. Yet, he
-doesn't want to remain silent on issues he cares about. Tor helps him
-feel secure that he can express his opinion without consequences to his
-public role.</p>
-
-<h2> Poor people use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>People living in poverty often don't participate fully in civil society
--- not out of ignorance or apathy, but out of fear. If something you
-write were to get back to your boss, would you lose your job? If your
-social worker read about your opinion of the system, would she treat
-you differently? Anonymity gives a voice to the voiceless.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li> VISTA grant</li>
-
-<p>Tor has an open Americorps/VISTA position for 1/07-12/07. This
-government grant will cover a full time stipend for a volunteer to create
-curricula to show low-income populations how to use anonymity online for
-safer civic engagement. Although it's often said that the poor do not use
-online access for civic engagment, failing to act in their self-interests,
-it is our hypothesis (based on personal conversations and anecdotal
-information) that it is precisely the “permanent record ”
-left online that keeps many of the poor from speaking out on the Internet.
-Where speaking out on social programs or job related issues might seem
-in their enlightened self interest, they see things closer to home.
-The boss or social worker or educational advisor virtually looking over
-their shoulder could put a fragile situation into a tailspin.</p>
-
-<p>We hope to show people how to more safely engage online, and then at
-the end of the year, evaluate how online and offline civic engagement has
-changed, and how the population sees this continuing in clear channels
-and anonymously into the future.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2> People who care about privacy, in general, increasingly use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>In the section below on recent media mentions of Tor, it becomes
-clear that the recent revelation of users' browsing patterns by AOL has
-piqued the conscience of the everyday Internet surfer in more privacy.
-All over the net, Tor is being recommended to people newly concerned
-about their privacy in the face of increasing breaches and betrayals of
-private data.</p>
-
-<h2> Soldiers in the field use Tor</h2>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li> Field agents</li>
-
-<p>How much, do you imagine, would the Iraqi insurgency pay to find out
-the location of every computer in Baghdad that logged into a military
-server in Maryland to read email? Tor can protect military personnel in
-the field by hiding their location, and even by concealing the location
-of Command and Control servers.</p>
-
-<li> Hidden services</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>When the Internet was designed by DARPA, its primary purpose was to
-be able to facilitate distributed, robust communications in case of
-local strikes. However, some functions must be centralized, such as
-command and control sites. It's the nature of the Internet protocols to
-reveal the geographic location of any server that is reachable online,
-however Tor's hidden services capacity allows military command and
-control to be physically secure from discovery and takedown.</p>
-
-<h2> Law enforcement officers use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Undercover officers use Tor to conceal their IP of origin during
-sting operations. “Anonymous tip lines” may still
-preserve a log of IP origins, if the informant isn't using Tor.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li> online surveillance</li>
-
-<p>Tor allows officials to surf questionable web sites and services
-without leaving tell-tale tracks. If the system administrator of an
-illegal gambling site, for example, were to see multiple connections from
-governmental or law enforcement computers in usage logs, investigations
-would be hampered.</p>
-
-<li> sting operations</li>
-
-<p>Similarly, anonymity allows law officers to engage in online
-“undercover ” operations. Regardless of how good an
-undercover officer's “street cred” may be, if his or her
-email headers include nypd.nyc.ny.state.us, his or her cover is blown.</p>
-
-<li> truly anonymous tip lines</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>While online anonymous tip lines are popular, without anonymity
-software, they are far less useful. Sophisticated sources understand that
-although a name or email address is not attached to information, server
-logs can identify them very quickly. As a result, tip line web sites that
-do not encourage anonymity are limiting the sources of their tips.</p>
-
-<h2> Whistleblowers use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>In the US, the Supreme Court recently stripped legal protections from
-government whistleblowers. But whistleblowers working for governmental
-transparency or corporate accountability can use Tor to seek justice
-without personal repercussions.</p>
-
-<h2> Bloggers use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Every day we hear about bloggers who are sued or fired for saying
-perfectly legal things online, in their blog. In addition to following
-the guidelines of EFF's Guide and RSF's guide, we recommend using Tor.</p>
-
-<h2> Citizens of repressive regimes use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Whether to read information on censored topics (such as AIDS, Tibet,
-or democracy), or to write about controversial topics, people inside
-oppressive regimes can risk life and livelihood. Tor helps cover the
-tracks of dissidents, foreign nationals, or even just people who want
-free accesss to information most of us take for granted.</p>
-
-<h2> People organizing for change use Tor</h2>
-
-<ul>
-<li> union organizers/labor activists</li>
-
-See mentions above
-
-<li> democracy activists/dissidents</li>
-
-See mentions above
-
-<li> peace/green activists</li>
-
-<p>When groups such as the Friends Service Committee and environmental
-groups are increasingly falling under surveillance in the United States
-under laws meant to protect against terrorism, many peaceful agents of
-change rely on Tor for basic privacy for legitimate activities.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2> Business executives use Tor</h2>
-<ul>
-
-<li> security breach information clearinghouses</li>
-
-<p>Say a financial institution participates in a security clearinghouse
-of information on Internet attacks. Such a repository requires members
-to report breaches to a central group, who correlates attacks to detect
-coordinated patterns and send out alerts. But if a specific bank in
-St. Louis is breached, they don't want an attacker watching the incoming
-traffic to such a repository to be able to track where information is
-coming from. Even though every packet were encrypted, the Internet
-address would betray the location of a compromised system. Tor allows
-such repositories of sensitive information to resist compromises.</p>
-
-<li> seeing your competition as your market does</li>
-
-<p>If you try to check out a competitor's pricing, you may find no
-information or misleading information on their web site. This is because
-their web server may be keyed to detect connections from competitors,
-and block or spread disinformation to your staff. Tor allows a business
-to view their sector as the general public would view it.</p>
-
-<li> keeping strategies confidential</li>
-
-<p>An investment bank, for example, might not want industry snoopers to be
-able to track what web sites their analysts are watching. The strategic
-importance of traffic patterns, and the vulnerability of the surveillance
-of such data, is starting to be more widely recognized in several areas
-of the business world.</p>
-
-<li> accountability
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>In an age when irresponsible and unreported corporate activity has
-undermined multi-billion dollar businesses, an executive exercising true
-stewardship wants the whole staff to feel free to disclose internal
-malfeasance. Tor facilitates internal accountability before it turns
-into whistleblowing.</p>
-
-#include <foot.wmi>
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