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WSJ Features Freegate, Mentions Tor



Chinese Censors
Of Internet Face
'Hacktivists' in U.S.
Programs Like Freegate,
Built By Expatriate Bill Xia,
Keep the Web World-Wide
Teenager Gets His Wikipedia
By *GEOFFREY A. FOWLER*
February 13, 2006; Page A1

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In Boston, computer scientist Roger Dingledine tends to Tor, a modified version of a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory project, which disguises the identities of Chinese Web surfers by sending messages through several layers of hosts to obscure their path. In addition to the Department of Defense, Mr. Dingledine had also received funding from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports free speech online.

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