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The Tor Project

@torproject

4 years

We build our tools to support human rights defenders and help them protect their online activity from the monitoring eyes of the state. To those in the streets in the U.S., remember to stay safe online. Use Tor to protect your browsing. . #blacklivesmatter

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

www.torproject.org

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Privacy isn't about having something to hide. Privacy is about protecting who we are as human beings: our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities from manipulation and exploitation. We all deserve privacy.

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The problem is much bigger than Facebook. It's the internet's economic model. It's the internet's surveillance model. Communicating, sharing, and accessing information shouldn't have to make you a commodity or target. You shouldn't be exploited for using the internet.

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Privacy is a human right.

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Just in case you need another reason to avoid Zoom.

Zoom admits to shutting down activist accounts at the request of the Chinese government | TechCrunch

Zoom, the wildly successful video chat service that has been a ubiquitous feature of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, said that it shut down three

techcrunch.com

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"Being arrested for using encryption is like being arrested for locking your front door" - @privacyint

Encryption At The Centre Of Mass Arrests: One Year On From Turkey’s Failed Coup

This piece was written by PI Policy Officer Lucy Purdon.

medium.com

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Privacy is a human right.

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How it started How it’s going

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It's Tor, not TOR. Pass it on.

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Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy online.

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People in Russia are turning to Tor by the thousands to circumvent internet censorship. 🇷🇺 🧅 Our guide for how to bypass censorship in Russia has been viewed more than 130,000 times. ⤵️

Censorship Circumvention

This category is for discussion on Censorship Circumvention. Direct access to the Tor network may sometimes be blocked by your Internet Service Provider or by a government. Tor Browser includes some...

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It's Tor, not TOR. Pass it on.

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Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy online.

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Tomorrow, #NetNeutrality could be repealed in the US. Today is a good time to download Tor Browser:

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If you want an alternative to Zoom: try Jitsi Meet. It's encrypted, open source, and you don't need an account.

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Pardon @Snowden .

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No, the WhatsApp hack does not show that end-to-end encryption is largely pointless. A house getting broken into doesn't show it's pointless to lock doors.

Bloomberg

@business

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WhatsApp's hack shows end-to-end encryption is largely pointless via @bopinion

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Now is a great time for @TwitterSafety to allow Tor Browser users to sign in to Twitter without forcing 2FA. Ability to access sources of information is crucial right now. #KeepItOn 🇺🇦

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URGENT: Starting Dec. 1st, Russian ISPs have started blocking access to Tor. We've also learned that Roskomnadzor, the Russian gov't responsible for censorship, intends to block . We need your help NOW to fight censorship!

Responding to Tor censorship in Russia | Tor Project

Since December 1st, some Internet providers in Russia have started to block access to Tor. We need your help NOW to keep Russians connected to Tor!

blog.torproject.org

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If you use a privacy system like Tor that doesn't rely on a centralized corporation, keep doing that.

Edward Snowden

@Snowden

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If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be.

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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords. It's time to switch to Tor Browser + @duckduckgo .

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.

www.cnet.com

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@torproject

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Our website and Tor Browser are now both available in #Catalan . Sabem que és més fàcil utilitzar alguna cosa en el vostre propi idioma. Si mai no heu provat el navegador Tor, avui és el dia. Prova-ho ara:

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Don't let the NSA spook you. Use Tor. 🧅🎃

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Use @signalapp , use @torproject . Pass it on.

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Google forced employees to delete a confidential memo about the plans for a censored search engine in China. The memo disclosed that users would have to log in & have their location tracked - plus a partner co would have "unilateral access" to user data.

Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.

theintercept.com

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"No amount of even the most perfect surveillance, no amount of repression or rent-seeking can or will change who we are... there is not a day that passes without individuals searching for the means to restore & improve the systems that govern our lives."

The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever

The power to end it is in your hands.

www.wired.com

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@torproject

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Türkiye’deki arkadaşlar! Ülkenizde Tor engelliyse ve internetiniz yavaşlatılıyor, sansüre uğruyorsa sansürsüz internete erişmek için Tercihler’den yeni bir köprü seçin.

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Online surveillance of Black Lives Matter activities by the U.S. government is documented fact. Be safe online. Use Tor. #blacklivesmatter

Exclusive: Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson

The Department of Homeland Security has used social media to closely track activists.

theintercept.com

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Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what defines us as human beings: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Privacy should be the default online. #TakeBacktheInternet

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No one should be able to control what you do and don't have access to on the web. The internet should be open and accessible to all. #NetNeutrality

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It's time to #TakeBacktheInternet .

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Nope.

Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says

International Monetary Fund (IMF) researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit...

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Dear Twitter, we're 5,000 followers away from 400K! Can you help us get there? Help by spreading the word that: 🟣 Privacy is a human right. 🟣 Tracking & surveillance are widespread on the internet. 🟣 Tor is a nonprofit that can help you take back your privacy online.

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This is terrifying. Having a cookie on their computers set by a 1x1 tracking pixel was used to wrongly accuse 30,000 Turks of treason. Tens of thousands were sent to jail. Many lost homes and jobs. Some committed suicide.

A 1x1 tracking pixel was used as evidence of treason against 30,000 Turks, sent tens of thousands...

When Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkish government took reprisals against hundreds of thousands of people suspected to have been involved in the failed coup of 2016, one of the criteria they…

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No kidding.

Study says Google is collecting more data about you than you realize - Fast Company

Google appears to be scooping up information about people who use incognito mode in their browsers.

www.fastcompany.com

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A private tab or incognito window will protect your privacy! !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀

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It's simple: Privacy is a human right. Digital rights are human rights. Encryption is your right.

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Surveillance ≠ safety. That's it. That's the tweet.

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Tails, a live operating system relying on Tor that helps you to use the internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer, turns 10 today. Happy birthday, @Tails_live 🎂 #FOSS #opensource

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Google Play store is blocked in Iran, but you still can download Tor by using our official Telegram bots/channels: 🤖 @GetTor_Bot to download Tor Browser 🤖 @GetBridgesBot to get obfs4 bridges 🗞️ @TorProject to get the latest news 👩‍💻 @TorProjectSupportBot for help. Stay safe!

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We've got big news. After months of work, Tor Browser is now stable on Android. Tor Browser 8.5 brings the highest degree of privacy and censorship-circumvention available to Android users.

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Congratulations to @DuckDuckGo ! We're happy to have you as Tor Browser's default search engine. 🦆 + 🧅

DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time

DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

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No thanks.

Amazon will let you pay with your palm in some Whole Foods stores

And, it hopes, at other retailers’ stores in the future.

www.vox.com

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Walmart filed a patent to use biometric shopping handles to track customers' heart rates, temperatures, and stress levels. Nothing to worry about here.

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Cheers to "destroying the Internet's economic model" 🙌

Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased

With the new Safari 11 update, Apple takes an important step to protect your privacy, specifically how your browsing habits are tracked and shared with parties other than the sites you visit. In

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😍

Edward Snowden

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@Goldmaster @torproject I'm literally using @torproject to post this tweet.

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If you use Firefox, Brave, or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship just by adding a browser extension! Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects users to the Tor network in places were Tor is otherwise censored. ❄️

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Use a 😷, use Tor.

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We've got to clear something up. It's Tor, not TOR. ✅ The Tor Project 🚫 The TOR Project ✅ THE TOR PROJECT (for all caps headings or when you’re very excited) Tell your friends.

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Keep resisting.

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Next Friday, Edward @Snowden will host Tor’s third PrivChat, a fundraising livestream event and conversation with human rights defenders + real-life Tor users @flexlibris , @ramyraoof , & @btayeg . You're invited, so set your reminder:

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What is Tor? Well played, Emma. #Jeopardy #TournamentOfChampions

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We've got BIG NEWS. We gave Tor Browser a UX overhaul. Tor Browser 8.0 has a new user onboarding experience, an updated landing page, additional language support, and new behaviors for bridge fetching, displaying a circuit, and visiting .onion sites.

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Privacy is a human right. Stand up for that right with a donation to Tor.

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Face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail up to 50% of the time. Use a mask to break surveillance in person and to help stop the spread of COVID-19, use Tor to break surveillance online. #UseAMaskUseTor

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We're very happy to see that Twitter is now offering an .onion address. 🐦🧅 For many years Tor users have been looking for such a feature. Thank you Twitter! Now is a vital time to help people stay connected and .onion services help to do this.

Alec Muffett

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This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed. On behalf of @Twitter , I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at:

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This is a major human rights breach - thousands in Turkey were arrested for downloading an encrypted messaging app

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No thanks.

Spotify's newly patented tech detects users' voice, emotions to recommend songs

The technology is an example of a future trend in computing: emotion recognition.

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A message from the Tor Project about #HackingTeam . http://t.co/Yp6MDzIpyA

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privacy

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May your 2021 be full of privacy and onions. 💜🧅

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Здравствуйте! Похоже, ваш Интернет-провайдер блокирует Tor. Tor Browser включает инструменты обхода блокировок. О том, как использовать мосты Tor, можно прочесть здесь (на русском языке):

Tor blocked in Russia: how to circumvent censorship

Здравствуйте! C декабря 2021 года интернет-провайдеры в России блокируют Tor. Браузер Tor вклю��ает инструменты для обхода этих блокировок. Например, вы можете воспользоваться Snowflake, мостами obfs4...

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61% of Android apps tested by @privacyint automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app even if they don't have a FB account or aren't logged in .onion:

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Today, Russia tightened its grip on the free internet by officially blocking , making it much more difficult for human rights defenders, journalists, & activists to protect themselves online.

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We heard Daily Stormer moved to a Tor onion service. We're here to defend the human rights these racists oppose.

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AT&T buildings in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, LA, NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, and D.C. have been identified as central to an NSA spying initiative monitoring billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across the US.

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This Friday, Edward @Snowden will host Tor’s third PrivChat, a fundraising livestream event and conversation with human rights defenders + real-life Tor users @flexlibris , @ramyraoof , & @btayeg . Open to all. Set your reminder here:

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Talk to your doctor about using Tor. #TorStories

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@Snowden I think this one line sums up the report nicely: "WHO deserves the right to privacy = everybody, everywhere."

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Freedom online is a human right Freedom online is a human right Freedom online is a human right Freedom online is a human right Freedom online is a human right #RunTorBridges

Run Tor Bridges to Defend the Open Internet | Tor Project

Thanks to bridges, Tor users are still able to connect to the network when the public Tor relays are blocked. It's not enough to have many bridges: eventually, all of them could find themselves in...

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Dance like no one's watching. Encrypt like everyone is. #WednesdayWisdom from our Seattle office

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Take a stand against @Spotify 's recent speech-recognition patent that claims to detect “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music. Music services shouldn't be using covert surveillance in their products.

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Increasing censorship in and against Russians has highlighted the importance of encryption and privacy preserving tools like Tor.

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Tor Browser isn't just a tool for protecting activists and journalists online. You can teach your family to protect themselves with it, too. Why should Google, your ISP, and website trackers know what your kids are researching and what sites they're visiting? They shouldn't.

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Ready to stop Facebook from following you around the web? We can help. Tor Browser "masks your activity and encrypts your usage data so that no one can track it." Plus it's free and open source.

WhatsApp Messenger new terms: Best privacy-focussed apps and services

The recent update to WhatsApp's terms, which forces users to share private data with Facebook, has been the center of discussions on the internet

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Ola Bini is a long-time privacy activist and should be released immediately. We are very concerned about the implications of his arrest and his safety. #FreeOlaBini #Ecuador

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As a contribution to our campaign to #TakeBacktheInternet , @snowden has given us three signed cards to include inside copies of #PermanentRecord for our supporters. Make a donation of $75 or more through 12/28, and you'll be entered to win one of three.

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New user guide: Circumventing Censorship in Iran with Tor! If you are having issues connecting to the Tor network from Iran, please try these solutions 👇

Iran: Circumventing Censorship with Tor

در حال حاضر در حال دریافت درخواست‌های زیادی برای پشتیبانی از ایران هستیم و وضعیت در دست بررسی است. می‌خواهیم که به تمامی درخواست‌ها پاسخ دهیم، اما این کار از توان ما خارج است. اگر با اشکالاتی در...

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We're excited to welcome @ProtonMail to the Tor Project Membership Program as our newest Green Onion! Thank you for supporting Tor and the work to make privacy accessible for everyone. 🧅🔒💚

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Facebook has always known what it was doing: exploiting you.

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V3 .onion addresses are coming to Bitcoin. 🙌🧅

Bitcoin's Next Upgrade Will Support Tor V3 Addresses - Decrypt

Bitcoin Core software will be prepared by the time Tor Network fully implements the latest version of its addresses.

decrypt.co

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Para nuestros panas en Venezuela, pueden seguir usando Tor seleccionando meek-azure, para esquivar la censura y mantenerse conectados a Internet.

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Please help us extend a heartfelt thank you to #StartSmall and @jack for supporting the Tor Project with a $1M/year grant. Building decentralized solutions for a better internet takes all of us, and we look forward to what we can accomplish together!

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For activists, anonymity online can be of life or death importance. Users should not be required to provide a phone number simply because they log in over Tor. We would love to talk to @Twitter to find a solution so that activists can use social media in their work safely.

Anonymous

@YourAnonNews

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In a moment of seriousness, let's talk about @Twitter , @torproject and phone numbers. For a couple years now, every Twitter user that uses Tor to conceal their identity has been suspended if they don't have a phone number. [1/8]

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Nobody should be exploited for using the internet, but right now, trackers are harvesting our every move online. We know a safer internet is possible.

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Privacidad es un derecho humano.

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If you use Firefox or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship. Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network.

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Twitter DMs should be encrypted. #FixItAlready , @Twitter .

Fix It Already

Tech companies could change these things to make your life easier and protect your digital security and privacy. Why haven’t they yet?

fixitalready.eff.org

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Nobody should be exploited for using the internet, but right now, trackers are harvesting our every move online. We know a safer internet is possible.

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It's not about having nothing to hide. #privacy #surveillance

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Türkiye’de yaşayan dostlarımız: Sansüre ve engellemelere karşı Tor sizin için burada. Tor Browser ile internetteki sansürü aşın ve özgürce gezinin. “Tor sansürlü” seçeneğini seçin, yapılandırın ve bir köprü seçin. İndir: #Her şeyGüzelOlacak

Tor Project | Çevrim içi kişisel gizlilik ve özgürlük

Kendinizi ağın izlenmesinden ve gözetlenmekten koruyun. Sansürü aşın.

tor.ybti.net

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. @Snowden is right. That's why we're doing our best to make sure there is a "safe enough" option out there. By donating to the #TorBugSmash Fund that ends Saturday, you can help us smash all the bugs and keep millions of people safer online.

Donate to the Tor Project

If you value privacy, support Tor

donate.torproject.org

Edward Snowden

@Snowden

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@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live I wouldn't expect any system to be totally secure, much less remain secure forever in the face of adversary advances, but that's not the claim. Security is process of choosing between "less safe" and "more safe;" and continuing to fork toward safety until you reach "safe enough."

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