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15)     <h2>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
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17)     <h2><strong>THE TOR PROJECT ANNOUNCES THREE-YEAR DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP</strong></h2>
18)     
19)     <p><strong>DEDHAM, MA</strong> - The Tor Project has published its <a

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

21)     development roadmap</a>, focused on providing anti-censorship tools and
22)     services for the advancement of Internet freedom in closed
23)     societies.</p>
24)     
25)     <p>Tor's tools and technologies are already used by hundreds of
26)     thousands of people to protect their activities online.  These
27)     users include journalists and human rights workers in politically
28)     rigid countries communicating with whistleblowers and dissidents.
29)     Law enforcement officers on Internet sting operations stay
30)     anonymous with Tor, as do people wanting to post socially
31)     sensitive information in chat rooms, like rape or abuse survivors
32)     and those with illnesses.  The Tor network also provides
33)     protection for people looking for another layer of privacy from
34)     the millions of websites and ISPs bent on collecting private
35)     information and tracking their moves online.</p>
36)     
37)     <p>While Tor's original goal was to provide this important
38)     anonymity, many people around the world use Tor to get around
39)     Internet censorship, as well.  <a href="http://www.hrw.org/">Human
40)     Rights Watch</a> and <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/">Global
41)     Voices Online</a> have both recommended Tor as a tool to circumvent
42)     censorship regimes in oppressive nations. The roadmap is focused
43)     on providing anti-censorship tools and services for the
44)     advancement of Internet freedom in closed societies.</p>
45)     
46)     <p>"If your Internet provider can't see what sites you're looking
47)     at, that also means they can't prevent you from reaching sites
48)     they don't want you to see," said Roger Dingledine, Tor Project
49)     Leader.  "This new roadmap with support from the larger community
50)     will let us make Tor even better at fighting censorship.  With
51)     three years of funding, we can tackle larger problems than
52)     before, and we can focus on making sure that Tor can grow to
53)     handle all the people who want to use it."</p>
54)     
55)     <p>Tor welcomes additional sponsors to join <a

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

57)     such as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the NLnet Foundation,
58)     and hundreds of individual donors. While existing funders are enough to
59)     get the items on the roadmap started, an additional $2.1 million over the
60)     next three years will turn the roadmap into usable tools.</p>
61)     
62)     <h2>ABOUT THE TOR PROJECT</h2>
63)     
64)     <p>Based in Dedham, MA, The Tor Project
65)     develops free and open-source software that provides online
66)     anonymity to the everyday Internet user. Tor was born out of a
67)     collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Lab starting in 2001,
68)     and it became an official U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2006. The
69)     Tor Project now works with many individuals, NGOs, law
70)     enforcement agencies, and businesses globally to help them
71)     protect their anonymity online.</p>
72)     
73)     <p>In addition to its efforts developing and maintaining the Tor
74)     anonymity software and the Tor network, The Tor Project also
75)     helps to lead the research community in understanding how to
76)     build and measure scalable and secure anonymity networks. The Tor
77)     developers publish several new research papers each year in major
78)     academic security conferences, and just about every major
79)     security conference these days includes a Tor-related paper.</p>
80)     
81)     <p>The "Onion Logo" and "Tor" wordmark are registered trademarks
82)     of The Tor Project, Inc.</p>
83)     
84)     <p>Contact: Andrew Lewman</p>

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