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<h2>Three things everyone can do now:</h2>
<ol>
<li>Please consider <a href="<page docs/tor-doc-server>">running
a server</a> to help the Tor network grow.</li>
<li>Tell your friends! Get them to run servers. Get them to run hidden
services. Get them to tell their friends.</li>
<li>We are looking for funding and sponsors. If you like Tor's goals, please
<a href="<page donate>">take a moment to donate to support further
Tor development</a>. Also, if you know any
companies, NGOs, agencies, or other organizations that want communications
security, let them know about us.</li>
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<h2><a class="anchor" href="#Usability">Supporting Applications</a></h2>
<ol>
<li>We need good ways to intercept DNS requests so they don't "leak" their
request to a local observer while we're trying to be anonymous. (This
happens because the application does the DNS resolve before going to
the SOCKS proxy.)</li>
<ul>
<li>We need to <a
href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TSocksPatches">apply
all our tsocks patches</a> and maintain a new fork. We'll host it if
you want.</li>
<li>We should patch Dug Song's "dsocks" program to use Tor's
<i>mapaddress</i> commands from the controller interface, so we
don't waste a whole round-trip inside Tor doing the resolve before
connecting.</li>
<li>We need to make our <i>torify</i> script detect which of tsocks or
dsocks is installed, and call them appropriately. This probably means
unifying their interfaces, and might involve sharing code between them
or discarding one entirely.</li>
</ul>
<li>People running servers tell us they want to have one BandwidthRate
during some part of the day, and a different BandwidthRate at other parts
of the day. Rather than coding this inside Tor, we should have a little
script that speaks via the <a href="<page gui/index>">Tor Controller Interface</a>,
and does a setconf to change the bandwidth rate. Perhaps it would run out
of cron, or perhaps it would sleep until appropriate times and then do
its tweak (that's probably more portable). Can somebody write one for us
and we'll put it into <a href="<svnsandbox>contrib/">contrib/</a>?
This is a good entry for the <a href="<page gui/index>">Tor GUI
