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Andrew Lewman

Andrew Lewman commited on 2007-12-17 06:11:02
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 <h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
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+Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation
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+<a href="http://www.onion-router.net/">onion routing project of the Naval Research Laboratory</a>,
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+and was originally developed by and for the U.S. Navy for the primary purpose of protecting government communications.
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+Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others. Here are some of the specific uses we've seen or recommend.
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 <a link="normalusers"></a>
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 <h2>Everyday, ordinary Internet surfers use Tor</h2>
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 <h2>Militaries use Tor</h2>
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-<li>Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the Naval Research
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-Laboratory, and was originally developed by and for the U.S. Navy for the primary purpose of protecting government communications.
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+<li>
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+<strong>Field Agents:</strong>
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+It is not difficult for insurgents to monitor internet traffic and
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+discover all the hotels and other locations from which people are
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+connecting to known military servers.
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+Military field agents deployed away from home have used Tor to
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+mask the sites they are visiting, protecting military interests and
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+operations, as well as protecting themselves from physical harm.
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 <li><strong>Hidden services:</strong>
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 When the Internet was designed by DARPA, its primary purpose was to be able to facilitate distributed, robust communications in case of
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 local strikes.  However, some functions must be centralized, such as command and control sites.  It's the nature of the Internet protocols to
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 regarding sweatshops</strong> that produce goods for western countries and to
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 organize local labor.
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+Tor can help activists avoid government or corporate censorship that hinders organization.
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+In one such case, a
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+<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/24/telus-sites050724.html">Canadian ISP blocked access to a union website used by their own employees</a>
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+to help organize a strike.
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 <a link="spotlight"></a>
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