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Torservers.net has been awarded $250,000 over two years by the Digital Defenders Partnership to strengthen and improve the Tor network, the anonymity system crucial to journalists and human rights defenders using the Internet.
https://blog.torservers.net/20131213/torservers-awarded-250000-by-digital-defenders.html
Tor is free software and an open network that helps internet users to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. It is used by hundreds of thousands of daily users worldwide to secure their online communication, avoid tracking, and circumvent censorship.
Tor protects users by bouncing communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.
Torservers.net provides high bandwidth infrastructure for the Tor network since 2010. We have grown to 10 volunteer-run organizations in 8 countries. Torservers.net distributes donations and grants across independent organizations of IT security professionals, and helps build a sustainable network by teaching others how to run stable Tor infrastructure.
The Digital Defenders Partnership was established in 2012 to provide rapid response to threats to internet freedom. The Partnership aims at keeping the internet open and free from emerging threats, specifically in internet repressive and transitional environments. It also wants to increase and better coordinate emergency support for the internet?s critical users, such as bloggers, cyber activists, journalists and human rights defenders, whenever and wherever they are under threat.
Thanks to the newly awarded grant of $250,000 over two years, participating Torservers organizations will be able to sustain at least 3 Gbit/s of exit traffic, and 2000 fast and up to date bridges. Tor bridges are required in many countries with state-level censorship. 3 Gbit/s are 949 terabytes, almost a petabyte of user data, every single month, per direction.
Call for organizations To strengthen the Tor network and prevent attackers, it is crucial to spread operation across as many groups as possible. Thanks to the Digital Defenders, Torservers.net can now extend its work and help less technical organizations with the setup and maintenance of Tor services. The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is the first civil society organization to join the Torservers program with its Cyber Arabs group. This collaboration allows Cyber Arabs to give stable and working Tor access to activists and journalists in the Arab world. If you are part of an organization interested in supporting Tor, please contact Torservers.net. They have various options available, and are happy to teach tech staff and journalists.
?Since we started Torservers.net a few years ago, Tor finally became fast enough to be used for all Internet communications? comments Moritz Bartl, co-founder of Torservers.net. ?New people also join the Tor network every day. With the help of the Digital Defenders, we have the chance to make the network bigger, safer and more resilient to the benefit of everyone with the desires to protect their online activities from surveillance.?
Contact Juris Vetra Zwiebelfreude e.V. c/o DID Dresdner Institut für Datenschutz Palaisplatz 3 D-01097 Dresden Germany
Fax: +49-(0)911-30 844 667 48 Phone: +49-(0)351-212 960 19 press@torservers.net
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:28:52 +0100 Christian christian@torservers.net allegedly wrote:
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Torservers.net has been awarded $250,000 over two years by the Digital Defenders Partnership to strengthen and improve the Tor network, the anonymity system crucial to journalists and human rights defenders using the Internet.
https://blog.torservers.net/20131213/torservers-awarded-250000-by-digital-defenders.html
That is good news. Congratulations to all involved in gaining this support, and many thanks to the donors for their generosity.
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Excellent news!
...and I will use the description of Tor because it is the best I've seen. Who would be against Tor after reading this
''Tor is free software and an open network that helps internet users to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. It is used by hundreds of thousands of daily users worldwide to secure their online communication, avoid tracking, and circumvent censorship.
Tor protects users by bouncing communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.
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On 12/14/2013 02:18 PM, I wrote:
...and I will use the description of Tor because it is the best I've seen.
I stole it right from the torproject.org front page :-)
Thanks for all the flowers! I really want to involve the community more in the whole thing. In short, we want to avoid that any single entity runs both high bandwidth exit relays, and a larger number of bridges.
We need to find seven more organizations that are willing to rent servers for a period of at least 2 years. Thanks to Digital Defenders, we can provide the funding. Ideally, the organizations have their own technical staff who we can teach how to maintain the bridge server, but we can also do the whole administrative part. This isn't as bad as it sounds, as we can over time find seven different people do to this who likely know more about digital security (eg. use OpenPGP smartcards for SSH authentication).
If you want to learn more, please join us for the Tor Relay Operators meetup at 30c3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:Torservers_Meetup
On Saturday 14 December 2013 13:28:52 Christian wrote:
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Torservers.net has been awarded $250,000 over two years by the Digital Defenders Partnership to strengthen and improve the Tor network, the anonymity system crucial to journalists and human rights defenders using the Internet.
Great. Congratulation to the torservers team.
Hi,
Awesome and well earned ! -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours
Sebastian Urbach
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On Saturday 14 December 2013 13:28:52 Christian wrote:
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Great. Congratulation to the torservers team. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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