Tor

Tor and Onion addresses are one of those things that I feel like I have known about since forever. Still, I never really understood how the Tor Project worked, both organisationally and technically. It is thanks to Avoiding the Internet Achilles’ heel: locking the web open with Onion Services at the Internet Archive Europe that I met some of the main maintainers of Tor software and I had a deeper understanding. I casually chatted with Silvio and Gus after the presentation, and I discovered that they were coming to Rotterdam for their yearly employee get-together! Inevitably, I invited them to host a workshop at XPUB, and they did![1] https://pan.rent/@tommi/117424518467912038 It went very well, and it was incredibly interesting. A perfect and complementary continuation of Thursday’s talk at the Internet Archive Europe. At the end of the presentation, we played a bit with Onion Services, first using OnionShare, then I made some on-the fly experiments. Onionize a website Guided by Gus,…