Revise index and reintroduce some old sentences I liked.
Nick Mathewson

Nick Mathewson commited on 2007-10-23 03:20:10
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 <h2>Tor: anonymity online</h2>
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-<p>
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-Tor aims to defend against <a href="<page overview>">traffic analysis</a>,
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-a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and
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-privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state
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-security.
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+<p>Tor is a software project that helps you defend against <a
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+href="<page overview>">traffic analysis</a>, a form of network
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+surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential
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+business activities and relationships, and state security.  Tor
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+protects you by encrypting your communications and bouncing them
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+around a distributed network of servers.  Tor works with many of your
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+existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging
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+clients, remote login, and other applications based on the Internet's
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+TCP protocol.
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 </p>
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-Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a <a
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+<p> Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a <a
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 href="<page whousestor>">wide variety of reasons</a>: journalists and
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-bloggers, human rights workers,
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-law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive
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-regimes, and just ordinary citizens. We have a full page devoted
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-to explaining exactly <a href="<page overview>">what Tor does, why this
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-diversity of users is important, and how Tor works</a>.
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+bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers,
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+corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary
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+citizens.  See the <a href="<page overview>">overview page</a> for a
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+more detailed explanation of what Tor does, why this diversity of
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+users is important, and how Tor works</a>.
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-There are three pieces of fine print you need to know about.
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+(There are three pieces of fine print you need to know about.
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 First, Tor does not protect you if you do not use it correctly.
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 Read <a href="<page download>#Warnings">our list of warnings</a> and
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 make sure to follow the
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 potential attacks that could compromise Tor's ability to protect you</a>.
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 Third, no anonymity system is perfect these days, and Tor is no exception:
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 you should not rely solely on the current Tor network if you really need
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-strong anonymity.
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+strong anonymity.)
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 <p>
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 Tor works by bouncing your traffic around a set of relays run by
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 volunteers all around the world. Tor's security improves as its user
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 base grows and as more people volunteer to
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-<a href="<page docs/tor-doc-relay>">run a relay</a>. It isn't
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+<a href="<page docs/tor-doc-relay>">run relays</a>. (It isn't
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 nearly as hard to set up as you might think, and can significantly
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 <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerAnonymity">
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-enhance your own security against some attacks</a>.
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+enhance your own security against some attacks</a>.)
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 If running a relay isn't for you, we need
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 <a href="<page volunteer>">help with many other aspects of the project</a>,
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 and we need funds to <a
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