[bestbits] Demystifying the Onion Router: GV Face Tomorrow with Tor (part of a new Advox series)

[Carolina Rossini]

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From: Mahsa Alimardani
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:20 PM
Subject: [gvadvocacy] Demystifying the Onion Router: GV Face Tomorrow with
Tor (part of a new Advox series)


Dear All,

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 *Tor Project
<https://www.torproject.org/>*.

Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET/ 6pm CET. The hangout is happening here
<https://plus.google.com/events/cnqsccekj03r95a4ehialintv04>, and you are
all invited to join, and participate through online questions.

Here's a bit about the conversation, and Tor:





*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”.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.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.*


Warmly,
Mahsa
-- 
Mahsa Alimardani | Twitter: maasalan | Amsterdam, Netherlands




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*Carolina Rossini *
*Vice President, International Policy*
*Public Knowledge*
*http://www.publicknowledge.org/ <http://www.publicknowledge.org/>*
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