Tor University Challenge: First Semester Report Card
canopic jug writes:
Back in August the Tor Project and the EFF launched an advocacy campaign for getting more Tor relays running at universities. Now it is December and they have published an update on how the Tor University Challenge has gone so far.
In August of 2023 EFF announced the Tor University Challenge, a campaign to get more universities around the world to operate Tor relays. The primary goal of this campaign is to strengthen the Tor network by creating more high bandwidth and reliable Tor nodes. We hope this will also make the Tor network more resilient to censorship since any country or smaller network cutting off access to Tor means it would be also cutting itself off from a large swath of universities, academic knowledge, and collaborations.
So far they have established contact with more pre-existing relays at universities, increased the number of relays in general running at universities, and cultivated better contact with the national-level university Internet connectivity organizations (NRENs). Some of the institutions have established public relays, and others even added new exit relays.
Previously:
(2023) The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying
(2023) Mullvad VPN And The Tor Project Collaborate On A Web Browser
(2022) Tor Project Releases Latest Version of its Eponymous Browser
(2022) Tor Project Upgrades Network Speed Performance with New System
(2022) Tor Project Battles Russian Censorship Through the Courts
... and more.
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