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11) <h2>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>

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13) <h2><strong>THE TOR PROJECT ANNOUNCES THREE-YEAR DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP</strong></h2>

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15) <p><strong>DEDHAM, MA</strong> - The Tor Project has published its <a

16) href="/press/presskit/2008-12-19-roadmap-full.pdf">three year

17) development roadmap</a>, focused on providing anti-censorship tools and
18) services for the advancement of Internet freedom in closed
19) societies.</p>
20) 

21) <p>Tor's tools and technologies are already used by hundreds of
22) thousands of people to protect their activities online.  These
23) users include journalists and human rights workers in politically
24) rigid countries communicating with whistleblowers and dissidents.
25) Law enforcement officers on Internet sting operations stay
26) anonymous with Tor, as do people wanting to post socially
27) sensitive information in chat rooms, like rape or abuse survivors
28) and those with illnesses.  The Tor network also provides
29) protection for people looking for another layer of privacy from
30) the millions of websites and ISPs bent on collecting private

31) information and tracking their moves online.</p>
32) 

33) <p>While Tor's original goal was to provide this important
34) anonymity, many people around the world use Tor to get around

35) Internet censorship, as well.  <a href="http://www.hrw.org/">Human

36) Rights Watch</a> and <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/">Global
37) Voices Online</a> have both recommended Tor as a tool to circumvent
38) censorship regimes in oppressive nations. The roadmap is focused
39) on providing anti-censorship tools and services for the

40) advancement of Internet freedom in closed societies.</p>
41) 

42) <p>"If your Internet provider can't see what sites you're looking
43) at, that also means they can't prevent you from reaching sites
44) they don't want you to see," said Roger Dingledine, Tor Project
45) Leader.  "This new roadmap with support from the larger community
46) will let us make Tor even better at fighting censorship.  With
47) three years of funding, we can tackle larger problems than
48) before, and we can focus on making sure that Tor can grow to

49) handle all the people who want to use it."</p>
50) 
51) <p>Tor welcomes additional sponsors to join <a

52) href="https://www.torproject.org/sponsors">current sponsors</a>;

53) such as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the NLnet Foundation,
54) and hundreds of individual donors. While existing funders are enough to
55) get the items on the roadmap started, an additional $2.1 million over the
56) next three years will turn the roadmap into usable tools.</p>

57) 

58) <h2>ABOUT THE TOR PROJECT</h2>

59) 

60) <p>Based in Dedham, MA, The Tor Project
61) develops free and open-source software that provides online
62) anonymity to the everyday Internet user. Tor was born out of a
63) collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Lab starting in 2001,
64) and it became an official U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2006. The
65) Tor Project now works with many individuals, NGOs, law
66) enforcement agencies, and businesses globally to help them

67) protect their anonymity online.</p>
68) 

69) <p>In addition to its efforts developing and maintaining the Tor
70) anonymity software and the Tor network, The Tor Project also
71) helps to lead the research community in understanding how to
72) build and measure scalable and secure anonymity networks. The Tor
73) developers publish several new research papers each year in major
74) academic security conferences, and just about every major

75) security conference these days includes a Tor-related paper.</p>
76) 

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