<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Mahsa Alimardani</b> <br>Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:20 PM<br>Subject: [gvadvocacy] Demystifying the Onion Router: GV Face Tomorrow with Tor (part of a new Advox series)<br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>As part of a new series, Advocacy is starting conversations with technical security and circumvention experts. Our goals is to help the community better understand how these tools work, and how we can use them. The subject on our agenda are the tools associated with the <b><a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_blank">Tor Project</a></b>.</div><div><br></div><div>Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET/ 6pm CET. The hangout is happening <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cnqsccekj03r95a4ehialintv04" target="_blank">here</a>, and you are all invited to join, and participate through online questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a bit about the conversation, and Tor: </div><div><br></div><div><font color="#0000ff"><i><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px">What exactly is the Tor network? Tor enables citizens to bypass government censorship and allows dissidents to communicate anonymously. Sometimes however, it has been used by criminals for nefarious activities, such as selling drugs or distributing child pornography. The network also facilitates special sites that allow website owners and their users to remain anonymous through “hidden services”. This has become popularly known as the “dark web”.</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px"><br style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px">How does it work? The Tor network is a collection of servers located across the world. The network helps users connect to the Internet anonymously by sending traffic between at least three Tor servers before allowing it to reach its destination. This makes it nearly impossible for anyone monitoring the Internet to understand where the traffic is coming from and where it is going. Tor “exit nodes” are the final set of servers used in the connection process. This is where a user’s traffic exits the Tor network and connects to the world wide web. These nodes are set up by volunteers, with a few organisations who maintain larger exits, including universities and individual activists.</span><br style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px"><br style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px"><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.2000007629395px">In order to better understand the tool, its uses, and its controversies, Global Voices’ Iran editor Mahsa Alimardani will talk with Iranian Tor developer Nima Fatemi and Tor’s head of communications, activist Kate Krauss.</span></i></font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Warmly,<br></div><div>Mahsa</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Mahsa Alimardani | Twitter: maasalan | Amsterdam, Netherlands</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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