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Tor2Web - Anonymizing Content and File-Sharing

By DrewWilson

Ever wanted to post something online anonymously for all to see? Tor2Web might be an application for you. Wired's Threat Level has made an interesting find today - Tor2Web. The concept comes from the anonymizing concept of the Tor network (AKA the Union Router) which anonymizes web surfers and prevents information about them from being recorded. More from the report: Aaron Swartz, one of the founders of Reddit, and Virgil Griffith, creator of WikiScanner have teamed up to provide users with a new service that gives them access to anonymized content posted through the Tor network. The article says that the concept of anonymously posting content through the TOR network has been on the back-burner for years, but recently brought back to life over the fact that Wikileaks, a website devoted to people who either want to publish suppressed information or want to access suppressed information (often reporters), was facing legal pressure to take content down.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).