Tor: Internet privacy in the age of big surveillance - Roger Dingledine - Ekoparty 2025

Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety. Tor's 11000 volunteer relays carry traffic for millions of daily users, including ordinary citizens who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the world whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and law enforcement. In this talk I'll take you on a tour of the Tor landscape, starting with a crash course on Tor, how it works, and what security it provides. I'll explain why Tor's open design and radical approach to transparency are critical to its success, and then compare the censorship circumvention arms race to the nation-state surveillance arms race. We'll examine why privacy is necessary for human rights, and end with a discussion of onion services, which are essentially an even stronger version of https, but which you might instead know from confusing phrases like "the dark web". Speaker: Roger Dingledine co-founder and original developer of the Tor Project Roger Dingledine is co-founder and original developer of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online. Roger works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face, and he is a prominent researcher in the online anonymity field. EFF picked him for a Pioneer Award, and Foreign Policy magazine chose him as one of its top 100 global thinkers. -- Seguinos en la redes: X:   / ekoparty   LinkedIn:   / 1053378   Instagram:   / ekoparty   Facebook: https://www.facebook/ekopartyconference Twitch:   / ekoparty   Visitá nuestra web: https://www.ekoparty.org/