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src="cid:part4.04060709.02040800@oplin.org"
alt="Tor onion logo" align="left" height="110"
width="85">Over the weekend, Boing Boing
published a piece about libraries in Massachusetts
that are using the Tor browser on their public PCs
to protect patron privacy. If you're not familiar
with Tor, it is free software that allows users to
browse the Internet anonymously. It's sometimes
called "the onion router" because it sends browser
requests through a roundabout network, hiding the
original computer within layers of other
computers, somewhat like the layers on an onion.
Tor has also been in other news recently because
of a claim that some employees of government spy
agencies - like the National Security Agency (NSA)
- have been helping Tor by passing them
information about security breaches spies have
used. If true, that would be an interesting
development. But is it true?
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html">Radical
Librarianship: how ninja librarians are
ensuring patrons' electronic privacy</a>
(Boing Boing | Alison Macrina and April Glaser)
"Others have installed Firefox with
privacy-protecting browser plugins like <a
href="https://disconnect.me/">Disconnect.me</a>,
<a href="https://adblockplus.org/en/firefox">Ad-Block
Plus</a>, and The Electronic Frontier
Foundation's <a
href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere">HTTPS
Everywhere</a> and <a
href="https://www.eff.org/privacybadger">Privacy
Badger</a> tools. Still more are setting up
Tor middle relays on their libraries' networks.
One librarian said that the workshop made her
feel 'thoroughly empowered...[to] help stop
illegal surveillance against my patrons.'
Amazing."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28886462">NSA
and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs', alleges
developer</a> (BBC News | Leo Kelion) "The
allegations were made in an interview given to
the BBC by Andrew Lewman, who is responsible for
all the Tor Project's operations. He said leaks
had come from both the UK Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the US
National Security Agency (NSA). By fixing these
flaws, the project can protect users' anonymity,
he said. 'There are plenty of people in both
organisations who can anonymously leak data to
us to say - maybe you should look here, maybe
you should look at this to fix this,' he said.
'And they have.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://wallstcheatsheet.com/technology/how-tors-dark-web-is-getting-darker-thanks-to-spies.html/">How
Tor's dark web is getting darker thanks to
spies</a> (Tech Cheat Sheet | Natalie
Shoemaker) "Covert operations, like GCHQ,
'heavily relies on Tor working to be able to do
a lot of their operations,' according to Lewman.
But there's also a seedy underbelly of child
porn and illegal drug sales. You have to take
the good with the bad if you want to protect
your privacy these days. There are over 150
million people who have downloaded the browser
in the past year, of which 2.5 million use it
each day. It's important to consider the people
who are in dire situations, people who may be
fighting against oppression that rely on
networks like these-the 'dark web'-in order to
stay hidden and protected."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=021000Q2VYYR">Are
government spies tipping off Tor?</a> (Top
Tech News | Jennifer LeClaire) "He [Tyler
Reguly, director of security research for
Tripwire] told us this isn't the first time that
this topic has been discussed and no one should
be naive enough to think that it will be the
last. 'Just a few weeks ago questions were
raised about the safety of Tor. Stating that
these organizations are assisting in increasing
Tor's safety is the perfect marketing ploy,'
Reguly said. 'The statements can't be verified
and they help reduce concerns regarding privacy
breaches while using Tor.'"</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=763f0a86-dd90-4cd7-8d97-cf6a5aabd03d%40sessionmgr112&vid=0&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=84936171">Fully
non-interactive onion routing with forward
secrecy.</a> (<em>International Journal of
Information Security</em>, Feb. 2013, p33-47
| Dario Catalano, Mario Di Raimondo, Dario
Fiore, Rosario Gennaro, and Orazio Puglisi)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/lrc/detail/detail?sid=31502177-e2d3-4540-8ded-5da64bb7df74%40sessionmgr111&vid=0&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=lfh&AN=95922915">Saving
privacy.</a> (<em>Boston Review</em>,
May/June 2014, p14-31 | Reed Hundt, Marvin
Ammori, Adam Kern, Richard M. Stallman,
Rebecca MacKinnon, Archon Fung, Frank
Pasquale, Jennifer Granick, Bruce Schneier,
Jeremy K. Kessler, and Evgeny Morozov)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=a7f38a78-e4e4-4f73-b41a-8c691c1281e4%40sessionmgr113&vid=0&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=97496815">Optimising
node selection probabilities in multi-hop
M/D/1 queuing networks to reduce latency of
Tor.</a> (<em>Electronics Letters</em>,
8/14/2014, p1205-1206 | S. J. Herbert, S. J.
Murdoch, and E. Punskaya)</li>
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