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Author: arma
Date: 2007-10-24 19:27:48 -0400 (Wed, 24 Oct 2007)
New Revision: 12161
Added:
website/trunk/en/torusers.wml
Removed:
website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml
Modified:
website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml
website/trunk/en/index.wml
Log:
rename whousestor to torusers, at weasel's suggestion
Modified: website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:04 UTC (rev 12160)
+++ website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:48 UTC (rev 12161)
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
and bot networks. </p>
<p>Second, consider that hundreds of thousands of <a href="<page
-whousestor>">people</a> use Tor every day simply for
+torusers>">people</a> use Tor every day simply for
good data hygiene — for example, to protect against data-gathering
advertising companies while going about their normal activities. Others
use Tor because it's their only way to get past restrictive local
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--- website/trunk/en/index.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:04 UTC (rev 12160)
+++ website/trunk/en/index.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:48 UTC (rev 12161)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
</p>
<p> Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a <a
-href="<page whousestor>">wide variety of reasons</a>: journalists and
+href="<page torusers>">wide variety of reasons</a>: journalists and
bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers,
corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary
citizens. See the <a href="<page overview>">overview page</a> for a
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+++ website/trunk/en/torusers.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:48 UTC (rev 12161)
@@ -0,0 +1,387 @@
+## translation metadata
+# Revision: $Revision$
+# Translation-Priority: 3-low
+
+#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Who uses Tor?"
+
+<div class="main-column">
+
+<h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+We're still writing this page; please <a href="<page
+contact>">send us</a> your fixes, comments, and stories!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tor provides anonymity: when it succeeds, nobody notices. This is
+great for users, but not so good for us, since publishing success
+stories about how people or organizations are staying anonymous could be
+counterproductive.
+As an example, we talked
+to an FBI officer who explained that he uses Tor every day for his
+work — 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 use Tor every day to...</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>...protect their privacy from unscrupulous 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
+to build marketing databases, often selling your private information
+without your permission. Tor, used appropriately,
+helps defeat many of these violations
+of your privacy.</p>
+
+<li>...protect their children 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. Increasingly, IP
+addresses can be literally mapped to street locations, and in the US the
+government is pushing to get this mapping closer and closer to
+street addresses.
+</p>
+
+<li>...research sensitive topics</li>
+
+<p>There's a wealth of information available online. But perhaps in your
+country, access to information on AIDS, birth control, Tibetan culture,
+or world religions is behind a national firewall.
+Or perhaps you are worried that if you research a particular set of
+symptoms, at some later date an insurance company might buy the
+logs of the websites you visited and establish that
+you had suspicions of a pre-existing condition.
+</p>
+
+<li>...see how the rest of the world lives</li>
+
+<p>Tor allows you to see the World Wide
+Web from a different perspective. Want to see Google come up in Polish?
+If you leave the Tor cloud at a Polish Tor relay, 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 can
+provide that window to the world.</p>
+
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Journalists use Tor</h2>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Reporters without Borders</li>
+
+<p><a href="http://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>The US <a href="http://www.ibb.gov/";>International Broadcasting
+Bureau</a> supports Tor development to help Internet users in countries
+where they can't 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>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 project leader,
+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>
+
+<p><a href="http://hrw.org/doc/?t=internet";>Human Rights Watch</a>
+recommends Tor for human rights workers throughout
+the globe for “secure browsing and communications.”</p>
+
+<li>Amnesty International</li>
+
+<p>Tor has consulted and volunteered help to Amnesty International's
+recent corporate responsibility campaign at
+<a href="http://irrepressible.info/";>http://irrepressible.info/</a>.
+See also their <a
+href="http://irrepressible.info/static/pdf/FOE-in-china-2006-lores.pdf";>full
+report</a> on China Internet issues.</p>
+
+<li>Global Voices</li>
+
+<p>Global Voices can't stop recommending Tor throughout their <a
+href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.globalvoicesonline.org+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 has been working 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 town's
+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. 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>
+
+<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>
+
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Law enforcement officers use Tor</h2>
+
+<p>Undercover officers use Tor to conceal their IP address during
+sting operations. “Anonymous tip lines” may still
+preserve a log of IP addresses, 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>
+
+<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>
+
+</ul>
+
+<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</li>
+
+<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>
+
+</ul>
+
+ </div><!-- #main -->
+
+#include <foot.wmi>
+
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--- website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:04 UTC (rev 12160)
+++ website/trunk/en/whousestor.wml 2007-10-24 23:27:48 UTC (rev 12161)
@@ -1,387 +0,0 @@
-## translation metadata
-# Revision: $Revision$
-# Translation-Priority: 3-low
-
-#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Who uses Tor?"
-
-<div class="main-column">
-
-<h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
-<hr />
-
-<p>
-We're still writing this page; please <a href="<page
-contact>">send us</a> your fixes, comments, and stories!
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Tor provides anonymity: when it succeeds, nobody notices. This is
-great for users, but not so good for us, since publishing success
-stories about how people or organizations are staying anonymous could be
-counterproductive.
-As an example, we talked
-to an FBI officer who explained that he uses Tor every day for his
-work — 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 use Tor every day to...</h2>
-
-<ul>
-<li>...protect their privacy from unscrupulous 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
-to build marketing databases, often selling your private information
-without your permission. Tor, used appropriately,
-helps defeat many of these violations
-of your privacy.</p>
-
-<li>...protect their children 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. Increasingly, IP
-addresses can be literally mapped to street locations, and in the US the
-government is pushing to get this mapping closer and closer to
-street addresses.
-</p>
-
-<li>...research sensitive topics</li>
-
-<p>There's a wealth of information available online. But perhaps in your
-country, access to information on AIDS, birth control, Tibetan culture,
-or world religions is behind a national firewall.
-Or perhaps you are worried that if you research a particular set of
-symptoms, at some later date an insurance company might buy the
-logs of the websites you visited and establish that
-you had suspicions of a pre-existing condition.
-</p>
-
-<li>...see how the rest of the world lives</li>
-
-<p>Tor allows you to see the World Wide
-Web from a different perspective. Want to see Google come up in Polish?
-If you leave the Tor cloud at a Polish Tor relay, 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 can
-provide that window to the world.</p>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Journalists use Tor</h2>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Reporters without Borders</li>
-
-<p><a href="http://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>The US <a href="http://www.ibb.gov/";>International Broadcasting
-Bureau</a> supports Tor development to help Internet users in countries
-where they can't 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>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 project leader,
-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>
-
-<p><a href="http://hrw.org/doc/?t=internet";>Human Rights Watch</a>
-recommends Tor for human rights workers throughout
-the globe for “secure browsing and communications.”</p>
-
-<li>Amnesty International</li>
-
-<p>Tor has consulted and volunteered help to Amnesty International's
-recent corporate responsibility campaign at
-<a href="http://irrepressible.info/";>http://irrepressible.info/</a>.
-See also their <a
-href="http://irrepressible.info/static/pdf/FOE-in-china-2006-lores.pdf";>full
-report</a> on China Internet issues.</p>
-
-<li>Global Voices</li>
-
-<p>Global Voices can't stop recommending Tor throughout their <a
-href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.globalvoicesonline.org+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 has been working 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 town's
-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. 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>
-
-<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>
-
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Law enforcement officers use Tor</h2>
-
-<p>Undercover officers use Tor to conceal their IP address during
-sting operations. “Anonymous tip lines” may still
-preserve a log of IP addresses, 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>
-
-<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>
-
-</ul>
-
-<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</li>
-
-<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>
-
-</ul>
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