
The Tor Project will improve onion services, one of the few censorship circumvention technologies that allow users to route around censorship while simultaneously protecting their privacy and identity.
Current project status
Just an idea (Pre-alpha)
It exists! (Alpha/Beta)
It's basically done (Release)
People use it (Production)
Addressed problems
- Physical intimidation, arrest, violence (including device seizure or destruction), and death for political or social reasons
- Repressive surveillance or monitoring of communication
- Restrictive Internet filtering by technical methods (IP blocking, DNS filtering, TCP RST, DPI, etc.)
- Blocking, filtering, or modification of political, social, and/or religious content (including apps)
- Technical attacks against government critics, journalists, and/or human rights organizations (Cyberattacks)
- Localized or nationwide communications shut down or throttling (Blackouts)
Focus
- Access to the Internet
- Privacy enhancement
- Security from danger or threat online
Objective(s)
- Software or hardware development
Beneficiaries
- Entrepreneurs
- Government
- Other
- Journalists
- General public
- Women
- Youth
- Sexual minorities
- Ethnic minorities
- Activists
- Advocacy groups/NGOs
- Academia
- Technologists
Region(s) archive
- Global
Project status
- People Use It. (Production)
Technology attributes
- Application deployment
- Desktop App
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Sensitive data
- User interface/experience
- Web application
- Anonymity