The Tor Project is upgrading its protections for internet users’ privacy and anonymity. A scholar and volunteer member of the nonprofit effort explains what’s changing and why.
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Ross William Ulbricht, the tech-savvy Texan who created the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on charges that equated him with a mafia boss.
The technology behind Silk Road is still sound, but with the potential for a life sentence it would take faith to deploy them.
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
Digital mass surveillance is having a chilling effect on US democracy, affecting journalists and lawyers, a report from human rights organisations has warned. The report, by Human Rights Watch and the…
The worrying developments in UK internet freedom over the last year make predictions for 2014 gloomy to say the least. Censorship now affects us all, so we should be thinking about it. And it’s not politically…
You may have seen reports over the weekend about yet another instalment of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance system - this time a set of slides focused on cracking the Tor network, a…
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Lecturer in Computer Security, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Commercial Law, Lancaster University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Science, Princeton University
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PhD Candidate in Communications Sciences and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana
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Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Cybercrime, University of Alabama