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[or-cvs] r12098: a first go at an intro to the who-uses-tor page. (website/trunk/en)



Author: arma
Date: 2007-10-22 06:33:57 -0400 (Mon, 22 Oct 2007)
New Revision: 12098

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml
Log:
a first go at an intro to the who-uses-tor page.


Modified: website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml	2007-10-22 09:32:24 UTC (rev 12097)
+++ website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml	2007-10-22 10:33:57 UTC (rev 12098)
@@ -8,6 +8,27 @@
 <h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
 <hr />
 
+<p>
+This page is still under construction; please <a href="<page
+contact>">send us</a> your fixes, comments, and stories!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+One of the challenges in explaining the various ways people use Tor
+is that the whole point of Tor is anonymity: when it succeeds, nobody
+notices, and publishing success stories about how people or organizations
+are staying anonymous can be counterproductive. For example, we talked
+to an FBI officer who explained that he uses Tor every day for his work
+investigating sites on the Internet &mdash; but he quickly followed up
+with a request not to provide details or mention his name.
+</p>
+
+<p>So while each story below represents actual users we've talked to,
+we've done our best to anonymize them when appropriate.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
 <h2>People like you use Tor every day to...</h2>
 
 <ul>
@@ -37,7 +58,7 @@
 <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
+Or perhaps you are 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