Jacob Appelbaum: TOR Project, Fight for Anonymity

We often talk about the increasing attemptsby the government to threaten internet freedom and privacy, and create new waysto monitor what you do and say online. But there's also a large push out thereto help internet users retain their anonymity, and even monitor how much meddlingthere is on your computer's network connection. And it turns out one of thepeople behind these tools, has himself been a government target. JacobAppelbaum, developer with the Tor Project joins the show.

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[PeterKyster]

Let's hope he's the next Linus Torvalds instead ;)

[Larkinchance]

This guy is so good!

Jacob Appelbaum is one of the most prominent geniuses of this new century and one of the few on the side of the individual and not captured by the corporate agenda.

[epicdeuce]

His next invention should be an Iron

[manhuntkilllist]

fuck the police

[professor88p]

This guy is a genius.

[elev84u]

I agree, and yeah we can't control human actions

[Oodood Oodooy]

I like tor ,thank for everything that I can search privacy. Thank Jacop,you are great.

[Nicole Hubbard]

My friend Robert mentioned this to me earlier. There is something called the 'Deep Web' where there is loads of information in which we cannot find on the internet. Deep Web such as Tor can help us find the information which we could not find recently.

[DuracoatedBalls]

Nerds? he looks like a superhero to me!

[Ezio Auditore]

peter parker

[grindingyourcore]

you have to want to see those things and visit those links. tor doesnt just go and opens those websites for you

[grindingyourcore]

you dont need tor for that. tor is just a browser thats capable of accessing the dark net