Privacy is a human right. Browser "Tor" that anonymizes the connection source is in a pinch due to lack of servers
The character of the name is mighty, and the privacy ally that seems to appear in Avengers. But now I'm in a bit of a pinch.
Tor, the royal road to privacy protection browsers, is in a pinch
Tor, a browser specializing in privacy protection that can be used by many people, claims Dawn and ``Privacy is a human right'' on the official website. are facing a shortage of servers they use as bridges. Fewer servers impact the browser's role as a gateway to the open Internet, combating censorship in areas where governments and other organizations restrict access to information.
Less bridge servers means more people lose access to information
The Tor Project, a non-profit organization that develops and maintains Tor, says on its official blog that it currently uses about Of the 1,200 bridge servers (bridges), 900 seem to support the obfuscation protocol obfs4. A bridge is a private server that provides access to users in areas where the Tor network is blocked, and by going through these servers (and sometimes through multiple countries), users' anonymity is preserved. I see.
However, Tor users are not limited to people in countries or regions where access to the internet or specific information is restricted. It is also used by people who want to hide their IP address and who do not want their history tracked.
The number of volunteer-run bridges has been declining this year. This is a privacy pinch.
Privacy requires a new bridge
Tor wrote on its blog, "Eventually, all bridges may end up on the blocklist, so just having lots of bridges is not enough." It's not enough, we need a constant stream of new unblocked bridges."
According to the Tor Project, the five countries with the highest number of users connecting via bridges from mid-August to the present are Russia (average 12,480 per day) and the United States (10,726). ), followed by Iran (3,738), Germany (2,322) and Belarus (1,453).
In an effort to keep bridges from declining, the Tor Project has started a campaign to have 200 obfs4 bridges online by the end of the year. Volunteers who run a bridge server for a year will receive a reward set of Tor hoodies, T-shirts, and stickers, depending on the number of servers! The campaign will run until January 7th next year.
Before using a VPN service, I also used Tor depending on the site and situation. Don't you hate it when strangers peer into your room or follow you around? Privacy isn't really a concern until it's violated, but it's a very fragile thing that creates risks just by being connected to the Internet.