Tor Project Merges With Tails (torproject.org)
(Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:35AM (msmash)
from the joining-forces dept.)
- Reference: 0175137757
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/09/26/1431201/tor-project-merges-with-tails
- Source link: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
The Tor Project:
> Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor to protect users from digital surveillance, have [1]joined forces and merged operations . Incorporating Tails into the Tor Project's structure allows for easier collaboration, better sustainability, reduced overhead, and expanded training and outreach programs to counter a larger number of digital threats. In short, coming together will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship.
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> Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help people around the world stay safe online. By joining forces, these two privacy advocates will pool their resources to focus on what matters most: ensuring that activists, journalists, other at-risk and everyday users will have access to improved digital security tools.
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> In late 2023, Tails approached the Tor Project with the idea of merging operations. Tails had outgrown its existing structure. Rather than expanding Tails's operational capacity on their own and putting more stress on Tails workers, merging with the Tor Project, with its larger and established operational framework, offered a solution. By joining forces, the Tails team can now focus on their core mission of maintaining and improving Tails OS, exploring more and complementary use cases while benefiting from the larger organizational structure of The Tor Project.
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> This solution is a natural outcome of the Tor Project and Tails' shared history of collaboration and solidarity. 15 years ago, Tails' first release was announced on a Tor mailing list, Tor and Tails developers have been collaborating closely since 2015, and more recently Tails has been a sub-grantee of Tor. For Tails, it felt obvious that if they were to approach a bigger organization with the possibility of merging, it would be the Tor Project.
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
> Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor to protect users from digital surveillance, have [1]joined forces and merged operations . Incorporating Tails into the Tor Project's structure allows for easier collaboration, better sustainability, reduced overhead, and expanded training and outreach programs to counter a larger number of digital threats. In short, coming together will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship.
>
> Countering the threat of global mass surveillance and censorship to a free Internet, Tor and Tails provide essential tools to help people around the world stay safe online. By joining forces, these two privacy advocates will pool their resources to focus on what matters most: ensuring that activists, journalists, other at-risk and everyday users will have access to improved digital security tools.
>
> In late 2023, Tails approached the Tor Project with the idea of merging operations. Tails had outgrown its existing structure. Rather than expanding Tails's operational capacity on their own and putting more stress on Tails workers, merging with the Tor Project, with its larger and established operational framework, offered a solution. By joining forces, the Tails team can now focus on their core mission of maintaining and improving Tails OS, exploring more and complementary use cases while benefiting from the larger organizational structure of The Tor Project.
>
> This solution is a natural outcome of the Tor Project and Tails' shared history of collaboration and solidarity. 15 years ago, Tails' first release was announced on a Tor mailing list, Tor and Tails developers have been collaborating closely since 2015, and more recently Tails has been a sub-grantee of Tor. For Tails, it felt obvious that if they were to approach a bigger organization with the possibility of merging, it would be the Tor Project.
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
Everyone should send them a few bucks (Score:5, Insightful)
by 0xG ( 712423 )
They save lives, and may be our last hope for real online privacy.
Re: (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
Yes, pretty much. Also much cheaper than a VPN, that will then keep logs anyways.
"Edge-casing--your kids may be doing it." (Score:2)
by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 )
As a user who runs Tor exclusively on SurveillanceOS, a joint project of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, I object to this unwarranted mingling of concerns.
Re: (Score:2)
by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 )
"...a joint project of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon"
Oh, also, the NSA, though legally I could get twenty years for mentioning that part.
So what does (Score:2)
Sonic have to say about this?
Re: (Score:2)
I'm sure Sonic is fairly neutral about this unless they get a DMCA notice from someone running the software.
Whatever he wants. (Score:2)
> Sonic have to say about this?
Last I heard he was chillin’ on his own island near Jamaica having three-ways with Laura Croft and The Princess.
(Hey, dude collected gold rings for a fucking job. The hell did you think he was gonna do.)