When censorship strikes, Tor provides a lifeline to access information--a lifeline to a FREE INTERNET. Tune in to this year's 2025 State of the Onion event to hear about how our teams and community work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep it alive.
It's been a year since we launched WebTunnel bridges and the Tor community has successfully scaled WebTunnel bridges from 60 to over 300, surpassing the initial goal of 200 new deployments.
We've given the Snowflake website a much-needed refresh to make it clearer, more accessible, and easier to navigate.
As we reflect on the past year, let's review the progress we've made on some of our most important projects.
Introducing Rdsys: the next-generation bridge distribution system, designed from the ground up for a more flexible, maintainable, and user-friendly approach to bridge distribution. As of October 2024, the Tor Project has retired its predecessor, Bridge DB. Find out more about why and the lessons learned from over 15 years of anti-censorship work.
We will be hosting our annual State of the Onion livestream, a virtual two-day event featuring the Tor Project's & Tor community's accomplishments of 2024. Join us on November 13th and 20th at 17:00 UTC.
The Tor Project and Tails have joined forces and merged operations to streamline operations, expand outreach, and strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship.
This blog post is a response to an investigative news report about a large-scale law-enforcement attack that managed to de-anonymize a user of an old version of the long-retired app Ricochet. This blog post aims to provide insight into what we know so far. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident suggests that Tor Browser was attacked or exploited. Tor users can continue to use Tor Browser to access the web securely and anonymously.
Mediapart.fr, an independent French investigative online newspaper, is officially launching its .onion site to ensure that its reporting can reach everyone, everywhere.
The event will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on May 25th, 2024. It is free and open to the public with sessions in English and Portuguese.