10 Facts About Tor Project

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Tor Project, Inc is a Seattle-based 501 research-education nonprofit organization founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others.

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The Tor Project is primarily responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network.

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Tor Project was founded in December 2006 by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others.

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4.

In October 2014, The Tor Project hired the public relations firm Thomson Communications in order to improve its public image and to educate journalists about the technical aspects of Tor.

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5.

In December 2015, The Tor Project announced that it had hired Shari Steele, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as its new executive director.

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6.

Later that month, The Tor Project announced that the Open Technology Fund would be sponsoring a bug bounty program that was coordinated by HackerOne.

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Tor executive director Andrew Lewman said that even though it accepts funds from the U S federal government, the Tor service did not collaborate with the NSA to reveal identities of users.

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8.

In June 2016, The Tor Project received an award from Mozilla's Open Source Support program .

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9.

In March 2011, The Tor Project received the Free Software Foundation's 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

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10.

In September 2012, The Tor Project received the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, along with Jeremie Zimmermann and Andrew Huang.

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