A "Tor Exit Relay" in Every Library

Crypto activists announce vision for Tor exit relay in every library

"Librarians see the value as soon as you say ‘privacy protecting technology."

Cyrus Farivar | July 31, 2015

Crypto nerds have now firmly set their sights on libraries, with the ultimate goal of setting up Tor exit relays in as many of these ubiquitous public institutions as possible. As of now, only about 1,000 exit relays exist worldwide. If this plan is successful, it could vastly increase the scope and speed of the famed anonymizing network.

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"We love this—we hope that more libraries and news outlets will start hosting Tor exit nodes," Kate Krauss, a spokeswoman for the Tor Project, told Ars. "It's a bold statement for free speech."

<more at http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/07/crypto-activists-announce-vision-for-tor-exit-relay-in-every-library/; related links: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/ (Tor Exit Relays in Libraries: A New LFP Project) and https://libraryfreedomproject.org/drilbabydril/ (#DRIL: Digital Rights in Libraries); further: https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html (What is Tor?)>