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     <h2>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
     
     <h2><strong>THE TOR PROJECT ANNOUNCES THREE-YEAR DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP</strong></h2>
     
     <p><strong>DEDHAM, MA</strong> - The Tor Project has published its <a

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

     development roadmap</a>, focused on providing anti-censorship tools and
     services for the advancement of Internet freedom in closed
     societies.</p>
     
     <p>Tor's tools and technologies are already used by hundreds of
     thousands of people to protect their activities online.  These
     users include journalists and human rights workers in politically
     rigid countries communicating with whistleblowers and dissidents.
     Law enforcement officers on Internet sting operations stay
     anonymous with Tor, as do people wanting to post socially
     sensitive information in chat rooms, like rape or abuse survivors
     and those with illnesses.  The Tor network also provides
     protection for people looking for another layer of privacy from
     the millions of websites and ISPs bent on collecting private
     information and tracking their moves online.</p>
     
     <p>While Tor's original goal was to provide this important
     anonymity, many people around the world use Tor to get around
     Internet censorship, as well.  <a href="http://www.hrw.org/">Human
     Rights Watch</a> and <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/">Global
     Voices Online</a> have both recommended Tor as a tool to circumvent
     censorship regimes in oppressive nations. The roadmap is focused
     on providing anti-censorship tools and services for the
     advancement of Internet freedom in closed societies.</p>
     
     <p>"If your Internet provider can't see what sites you're looking
     at, that also means they can't prevent you from reaching sites
     they don't want you to see," said Roger Dingledine, Tor Project
     Leader.  "This new roadmap with support from the larger community
     will let us make Tor even better at fighting censorship.  With
     three years of funding, we can tackle larger problems than
     before, and we can focus on making sure that Tor can grow to
     handle all the people who want to use it."</p>
     
     <p>Tor welcomes additional sponsors to join <a

     href="<page about/sponsors>">current sponsors</a>;

     such as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the NLnet Foundation,
     and hundreds of individual donors. While existing funders are enough to
     get the items on the roadmap started, an additional $2.1 million over the
     next three years will turn the roadmap into usable tools.</p>
     
     <h2>ABOUT THE TOR PROJECT</h2>
     
     <p>Based in Dedham, MA, The Tor Project
     develops free and open-source software that provides online
     anonymity to the everyday Internet user. Tor was born out of a
     collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Lab starting in 2001,
     and it became an official U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2006. The
     Tor Project now works with many individuals, NGOs, law
     enforcement agencies, and businesses globally to help them
     protect their anonymity online.</p>
     
     <p>In addition to its efforts developing and maintaining the Tor
     anonymity software and the Tor network, The Tor Project also
     helps to lead the research community in understanding how to
     build and measure scalable and secure anonymity networks. The Tor
     developers publish several new research papers each year in major
     academic security conferences, and just about every major
     security conference these days includes a Tor-related paper.</p>
     
     <p>The "Onion Logo" and "Tor" wordmark are registered trademarks
     of The Tor Project, Inc.</p>
     
     <p>Contact: Andrew Lewman</p>

     <p>Tel: +1-781-948-1982</p>

     <p>Email: execdir@torproject.org</p>
     <p><a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Website: Tor Project</a></p>
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