the 'who uses tor' draft that shava wrote 12 months ago. needs cleaning up. (eeb77013c)

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	4	+#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Who uses Tor?"
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	6	+<div class="main-column">
	7	+
	8	+<h1>Who uses Tor?</h1>
	9	+<hr />
	10	+
	11	+<h2>People like you use Tor every day to...</h2>
	12	+
	13	+<ul>
	14	+<li>...protect their privacy from marketers </li>
	15	+
	16	+<p>Anonymity helps defeat marketing that doesn't have your permissions.
	17	+There are all kinds of unscrupulous marketing techniques that track your
	18	+activity through cookies, web bugs, and malware by using your IP address
	19	+to build marketing databases, often selling your private information
	20	+without your permission. Tor helps defeat a number of these violations
	21	+of your privacy.</p>
	22	+
	23	+<li>...preserve their kids' safety online</li>
	24	+
	25	+<p>“I'm proud my mom and dad let me stay alone at home now.”
	26	+You've told your kids they shouldn't share personally identifying
	27	+information online, but they may be sharing their location simply
	28	+by not concealing their IP address from predators. Increasingly, IP
	29	+numbers can be literally mapped to street locations, and in the US the
	30	+government is pushing to get this mapping closer and closer to your
	31	+street address. What if a predator heard your child was alone, and
	32	+called up the satellite view of your address to find the best approach
	33	+from the back of the property?</p>
	34	+
	35	+<li>...research sensitive topics</li>
	36	+
	37	+<p>There's a wealth of information available online. Perhaps, in your
	38	+country, access to information on AIDS, birth control, Tibetan culture,
	39	+or world religions may be restricted inside a national firewall.
	40	+Or perhaps are you afraid that if you research a particular set of
	41	+symptoms, at some later date an insurance company could establish that
	42	+you had suspicions of a pre-existing condition? Want to research airline
	43	+security statistics or animal rights without the risk that your national
	44	+security authorities are going to think you are a terrorist? </p>
	45	+
	46	+<li>...find out how other folks live</li>
	47	+
	48	+<p>Tor, in combination with Blossom, allows you to see the World Wide
	49	+Web from a specific perspective. Want to see Google come up in Polish?
	50	+If you ask to leave the Tor cloud at a Polish Tor server, you'll see what
	51	+Poland sees online. Want to check the differential pricing offered by
	52	+an online retailer or wholesaler to folks in another country, compared
	53	+to the pricing offered to you or your company? Tor and Blossom can
	54	+provide that window to the world, also.</p>
	55	+
	56	+</ul>
	57	+
	58	+<h2>Journalists use Tor</h2>
	59	+
	60	+<ul>
	61	+
	62	+<li>Reporters without Borders</li>
	63	+
	64	+<p><a href="www.rsf.org">Reporters without Borders </a> advises
	65	+journalists, sources, bloggers, and dissidents online to use Tor to
	66	+ensure their privacy. RSF tracks internet prisoners of conscience and
	67	+jailed or harmed journalists all over the world.</p>
	68	+
	69	+<li>IBB/Voice of America/Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Asia</li>
	70	+
	71	+<p>IBB recommends Tor for Internet users in countries that can not get
	72	+safe access to free media. Tor not only protects freedom of expression,
	73	+but preserves the ability of persons behind national firewalls or under
	74	+the surveillance of repressive regimes to view information that gives
	75	+a global perspective on democracy, economics, religion, and other vital
	76	+topics to a full global perspective on culture.</p>
	77	+
	78	+<li>MediaGiraffe</li>
	79	+
	80	+<p>A conference for people in the media “willing to
	81	+stick their necks out” recently asked Tor executive
	82	+director, Shava Nerad, to lead a discussion of identity
	83	+and anonymity for journalists online, and profiled <a
	84	+href="http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Shava_Nerad">here.</a></p>
	85	+
	86	+<li>Reporters in sensitive locations</li>
	87	+
	88	+<p>Reporters in sensitive environments can use Tor to be more secure in
	89	+filing their stories.</p>
	90	+
	91	+<li>sources</li>
	92	+
	93	+<p>Journalists' sources often use Tor to report sensitive information,
	94	+or to discuss items with journalists from sensitive locations.</p>
	95	+
	96	+<li>whistleblowers</li>
	97	+
	98	+<p>Likewise, whistleblowers use Tor to safely leave tips on governmental
	99	+and corporate malfeasance.
	100	+
	101	+<li>citizen journalism</li>
	102	+
	103	+<p>Citizen journalists in China and “other Internet black
	104	+holes” use Tor to write about local events and to encourage social
	105	+change and political reform, more secure that there will not be a knock
	106	+on their door at midnight.</p>
	107	+
	108	+</ul>
	109	+
	110	+<h2>Human rights workers use Tor</h2>
	111	+
	112	+<p>Reporting human rights violations from within their country of origin
	113	+is a task for peaceful warriors. It takes courage and a good eye to risk
	114	+mitigation. Human rights activists use Tor to anonymously report from
	115	+danger zones. Internationally, labor rights workers use Tor and other
	116	+forms of online and offline anonymity to organize workers in accordance
	117	+with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Are they within the law?
	118	+But, does that mean they are safe?</p>
	119	+
	120	+<ul>
	121	+
	122	+<li>Human Rights Watch</li>
	123	+
	124	+<p>In their report “Race to the Bottom: Corporate
	125	+Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship,” a study
	126	+co-author interviewed Roger Dingledine, Tor principal developer,
	127	+on Tor use. They cover Tor in the section on how to breach the <a
	128	+href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/3.htm#_Toc142395820">“Great
	129	+Firewall of China ”</a></p>
	130	+
	131	+<a href="http://hrw.org/doc/?t=internet">web site</a>
	132	+
	133	+<p>Human Rights Watch recommends Tor for human rights workers throughout
	134	+the globe for “secure browsing and communications.”</p>
	135	+
	136	+<p>Tor has been invited to create a training for HRW field agents to be
	137	+delivered this fall in NYC.</p>
	138	+
	139	+<li>Amnesty International</li>
	140	+
	141	+<p>Tor has consulted and volunteered help to Amnesty International's
	142	+recent corporate responsibility campaign, http://irrepressible.info/,
	143	+see also their full report on China Internet issues at
	144	+http://irrepressible.info/static/pdf/FOE-in-china-2006-lores.pdf</p>
	145	+
	146	+<li>Global Voices</li>
	147	+
	148	+<p>Global Voices can't stop recommending Tor throughout their <a
	149	+href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=DVFC,DVFC:1970--2,DVFC:en&q=+site:www.globalvoicesonline.org+global+voices+tor">
	150	+web site.</a></p>
	151	+
	152	+<li>10% for corruption</li>
	153	+
	154	+<p>A contact of ours who works with a public health nonprofit in
	155	+Africa reports that his nonprofit must budget 10% to cover various
	156	+sorts of corruption, mostly bribes and such. When that percentage
	157	+rises steeply, not only can they not afford the money, but they can
	158	+not afford to complain -- this is the point at which open objection can
	159	+become dangerous. So his nonprofit is trying to figure out how to use
	160	+Tor to safely whistleblow on governmental corruption in order to continue
	161	+their work more effectively and safely.</p>
	162	+
	163	+<li>Labor organizers in the US and overseas</li>
	164	+
	165	+<p>At a recent conference a Tor staffer ran into a woman who came from
	166	+a “company town ” in a mountainous area of the
	167	+eastern United States. She was attempting to blog anonymously to rally
	168	+local residents to urge reform on the company that dominated the towns
	169	+economic and governmental affairs, fully cognizant that the kind of
	170	+organizing she was doing could lead to harm or “fatal
	171	+accidents.”</p>
	172	+
	173	+<p>In east Asia, some labor organizers use anonymity to reveal information
	174	+regarding sweatshops that produce goods for western countries and to
	175	+organize local labor.</p>
	176	+
	177	+</ul>
	178	+
	179	+<h2>People with high profile community roles use Tor</h2>
	180	+
	181	+<p>Does being in the public spotlight shut you off from having a private
	182	+life, forever, online? A rural lawyer in a small New England state keeps
	183	+an anonymous blog because, with the diverse clientele at his prestigious
	184	+law firm, his political beliefs are bound to offend someone. Yet, he
	185	+doesn't want to remain silent on issues he cares about. Tor helps him
	186	+feel secure that he can express his opinion without consequences to his
	187	+public role.</p>
	188	+
	189	+<h2>Poor people use Tor</h2>
	190	+
	191	+<p>People living in poverty often don't participate fully in civil society
	192	+-- not out of ignorance or apathy, but out of fear. If something you
	193	+write were to get back to your boss, would you lose your job? If your
	194	+social worker read about your opinion of the system, would she treat
	195	+you differently? Anonymity gives a voice to the voiceless.</p>
	196	+
	197	+<ul>
	198	+
	199	+<li>VISTA grant</li>
	200	+
	201	+<p>Tor has an open Americorps/VISTA position. This
	202	+government grant will cover a full time stipend for a volunteer to create
	203	+curricula to show low-income populations how to use anonymity online for
	204	+safer civic engagement. Although it's often said that the poor do not use
	205	+online access for civic engagment, failing to act in their self-interests,
	206	+it is our hypothesis (based on personal conversations and anecdotal
	207	+information) that it is precisely the “permanent record ”
	208	+left online that keeps many of the poor from speaking out on the Internet.
	209	+Where speaking out on social programs or job related issues might seem
	210	+in their enlightened self interest, they see things closer to home.
	211	+The boss or social worker or educational advisor virtually looking over
	212	+their shoulder could put a fragile situation into a tailspin.</p>
	213	+
	214	+<p>We hope to show people how to more safely engage online, and then at
	215	+the end of the year, evaluate how online and offline civic engagement has
	216	+changed, and how the population sees this continuing in clear channels
	217	+and anonymously into the future.</p>
	218	+
	219	+</ul>
	220	+
	221	+<h2>People who care about privacy, in general, increasingly use Tor</h2>
	222	+
	223	+<p>In the section below on recent media mentions of Tor, it becomes
	224	+clear that the recent revelation of users' browsing patterns by AOL has
	225	+piqued the conscience of the everyday Internet surfer in more privacy.
	226	+All over the net, Tor is being recommended to people newly concerned
	227	+about their privacy in the face of increasing breaches and betrayals of
	228	+private data.</p>
	229	+
	230	+<h2>Soldiers in the field use Tor</h2>
	231	+
	232	+<ul>
	233	+
	234	+<li>Field agents</li>
	235	+
	236	+<p>How much, do you imagine, would the Iraqi insurgency pay to find out
	237	+the location of every computer in Baghdad that logged into a military
	238	+server in Maryland to read email? Tor can protect military personnel in
	239	+the field by hiding their location, and even by concealing the location
	240	+of Command and Control servers.</p>
	241	+
	242	+<li>Hidden services</li>
	243	+
	244	+</ul>
	245	+
	246	+<p>When the Internet was designed by DARPA, its primary purpose was to
	247	+be able to facilitate distributed, robust communications in case of
	248	+local strikes. However, some functions must be centralized, such as
	249	+command and control sites. It's the nature of the Internet protocols to
	250	+reveal the geographic location of any server that is reachable online,
	251	+however Tor's hidden services capacity allows military command and
	252	+control to be physically secure from discovery and takedown.</p>
	253	+
	254	+<h2>Law enforcement officers use Tor</h2>
	255	+
	256	+<p>Undercover officers use Tor to conceal their IP of origin during
	257	+sting operations. “Anonymous tip lines” may still
	258	+preserve a log of IP origins, if the informant isn't using Tor.</p>
	259	+
	260	+<ul>
	261	+
	262	+<li>online surveillance</li>
	263	+
	264	+<p>Tor allows officials to surf questionable web sites and services
	265	+without leaving tell-tale tracks. If the system administrator of an
	266	+illegal gambling site, for example, were to see multiple connections from
	267	+governmental or law enforcement computers in usage logs, investigations
	268	+would be hampered.</p>
	269	+
	270	+<li>sting operations</li>
	271	+
	272	+<p>Similarly, anonymity allows law officers to engage in online
	273	+“undercover ” operations. Regardless of how good an
	274	+undercover officer's “street cred” may be, if his or her
	275	+email headers include nypd.nyc.ny.state.us, his or her cover is blown.</p>
	276	+
	277	+<li>truly anonymous tip lines</li>
	278	+
	279	+</ul>
	280	+
	281	+<p>While online anonymous tip lines are popular, without anonymity
	282	+software, they are far less useful. Sophisticated sources understand that
	283	+although a name or email address is not attached to information, server
	284	+logs can identify them very quickly. As a result, tip line web sites that
	285	+do not encourage anonymity are limiting the sources of their tips.</p>
	286	+
	287	+<h2>Whistleblowers use Tor</h2>
	288	+
	289	+<p>In the US, the Supreme Court recently stripped legal protections from
	290	+government whistleblowers. But whistleblowers working for governmental
	291	+transparency or corporate accountability can use Tor to seek justice
	292	+without personal repercussions.</p>
	293	+
	294	+<h2>Bloggers use Tor</h2>
	295	+
	296	+<p>Every day we hear about bloggers who are sued or fired for saying
	297	+perfectly legal things online, in their blog. In addition to following
	298	+the guidelines of EFF's Guide and RSF's guide, we recommend using Tor.</p>
	299	+
	300	+<h2>Citizens of repressive regimes use Tor</h2>
	301	+
	302	+<p>Whether to read information on censored topics (such as AIDS, Tibet,
	303	+or democracy), or to write about controversial topics, people inside
	304	+oppressive regimes can risk life and livelihood. Tor helps cover the
	305	+tracks of dissidents, foreign nationals, or even just people who want
	306	+free accesss to information most of us take for granted.</p>
	307	+
	308	+<h2>People organizing for change use Tor</h2>
	309	+
	310	+<ul>
	311	+<li>union organizers/labor activists</li>
	312	+
	313	+See mentions above
	314	+
	315	+<li>democracy activists/dissidents</li>
	316	+
	317	+See mentions above
	318	+
	319	+<li>peace/green activists</li>
	320	+
	321	+<p>When groups such as the Friends Service Committee and environmental
	322	+groups are increasingly falling under surveillance in the United States
	323	+under laws meant to protect against terrorism, many peaceful agents of
	324	+change rely on Tor for basic privacy for legitimate activities.</p>
	325	+
	326	+</ul>
	327	+
	328	+<h2>Business executives use Tor</h2>
	329	+<ul>
	330	+
	331	+<li>security breach information clearinghouses</li>
	332	+
	333	+<p>Say a financial institution participates in a security clearinghouse
	334	+of information on Internet attacks. Such a repository requires members
	335	+to report breaches to a central group, who correlates attacks to detect
	336	+coordinated patterns and send out alerts. But if a specific bank in
	337	+St. Louis is breached, they don't want an attacker watching the incoming
	338	+traffic to such a repository to be able to track where information is
	339	+coming from. Even though every packet were encrypted, the Internet
	340	+address would betray the location of a compromised system. Tor allows
	341	+such repositories of sensitive information to resist compromises.</p>
	342	+
	343	+<li>seeing your competition as your market does</li>
	344	+
	345	+<p>If you try to check out a competitor's pricing, you may find no
	346	+information or misleading information on their web site. This is because
	347	+their web server may be keyed to detect connections from competitors,
	348	+and block or spread disinformation to your staff. Tor allows a business
	349	+to view their sector as the general public would view it.</p>
	350	+
	351	+<li>keeping strategies confidential</li>
	352	+
	353	+<p>An investment bank, for example, might not want industry snoopers to be
	354	+able to track what web sites their analysts are watching. The strategic
	355	+importance of traffic patterns, and the vulnerability of the surveillance
	356	+of such data, is starting to be more widely recognized in several areas
	357	+of the business world.</p>
	358	+
	359	+<li>accountability
	360	+
	361	+</ul>
	362	+
	363	+<p>In an age when irresponsible and unreported corporate activity has
	364	+undermined multi-billion dollar businesses, an executive exercising true
	365	+stewardship wants the whole staff to feel free to disclose internal
	366	+malfeasance. Tor facilitates internal accountability before it turns
	367	+into whistleblowing.</p>
	368	+
	369	+#include <foot.wmi>
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