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Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
I’m sitting in a cold, scuffed, and dirty plastic chair on a crowded train, watching freezing fog stream past the window — one of the many unpleasant but strangely enjoyable everyday experiences of life in the United Kingdom. Observing these two worlds — the military academics and the cypherpunks — interacting, through sharing test results, theoretical discussions, phone calls, emails, and eating the occasional roasted onion, we see the beginnings of a distinctive idea of what privacy means. Beyond offering privacy and protection from cybercrime in an increasingly insecure global landscape, they point to a more optimistic future for the internet, one in which we rebuild trust in our social institutions to address harm, rather than surrender that role to unaccountable technologies of control.
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