The Tor Project and Tails OS are merging operations to better collaborate for a free internet by protecting users from surveillance and censorship. The idea of the merger came late last year from ...

DuckDuckGo just donated $25,000 to The Tor Project’s services focused on protecting user privacy. It’s a natural fit for the Paoli-based DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn’t track its users the ...

The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, is joining forces with Tails, the maker of a portable operating system that uses Tor. Both organizations seek to ...

The Tor Project wants beta testers of its new VPN service to help “[tip] the scales toward a freer internet.” Free to use and available in Google’s Play Store, the recently launched Tor VPN is only ...

A number of messaging services continue to tout their security as assured through encryption. But in a world where some of those services, like Telegram, flip-flop on their privacy policies, ...

The Tor Project has published details about a newly introduced system called Congestion Control that promises to eliminate speed limits on the network. This new system is up and running in the Tor ...

The Tor Project Inc., the nonprofit team behind the anonymity-protecting Tor Browser, and commercial virtual private network provider Mullvad VPN AB have teamed up to launch the privacy-preserving ...

Two direction signs, one pointing left (Censorship) and the other one, pointing right (Free speech). The United Nations (UN)—a forum of 193 nations—regards freedom of expression as a fundamental human ...

In a significant move to enhance online privacy and anonymity, the Tor Project and Tails, a Linux-based portable operating system, have announced a merger of their operations. This union is designed ...

Child pornography, drugs and weapons sales and more — Gareth Owenson has spent the past five years of his life indexing and tracking the dark web, and over time his opinion of the Tor Project’s ...

The Tor Project announced an entirely new board of directors Wednesday, the latest fallout from a sexual misconduct scandal enveloping its most prominent employee. A blog post on the Tor Project site ...

“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...