We’ve always been big fans of the Tor Project. For those of you who are not familiar with Tor, it is a tool that enables users to bypass internet censorship and anonymize user activity. In many oppressive countries Tor is one of the few ways the citizens can communicate with the outside world. Tor is also a critical tool for human rights activists and journalists around the globe.
A few days Jacob Appelbaum, one of Tor Project’s core members sent out a message to the Tor mailing list, urging for help after an increased crackdown in Iran. This can be seen in the image below.
We wanted to help out, so we reached out to cloud vendors to see if they were willing to help. Luckily they were. Thanks to the kind contribution of servers from CityCloud, we now have five Tor-relays up and running in Sweden (with obfsproxy).
We also expect to soon have more Tor-relays up and running in Switzerland on CloudSigma‘s network.
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Before we get started, we should point out that we have not tested this in practice. We are only basing this on public information (primarily from 