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Boing Boing tells us that Tor is set to get some Summer Lovin’ from Google’s Summer of Code. This is great for Tor, whose revolutionary “onion routing” software makes it easy to relatively anonymize Internet traffic, but, like many open projects, needs some attention to take it to “the next level”.

The point of Tor and other similar software is sometimes misunderstood. This page from the Tor project outlines some of the people around the world who can get great benefits from Tor advancing. With the changing face of privacy (mainly the loss thereof) and the many documented examples of repressive regimes stifling free speech, we need the options to bypass the iron fist from coming down on information. I’m all for law and order, but information and communication breaks through all barriers, and any government that tries to stifle the cries from and to its people must not succeed.

Besides the political ramifications of such a devlopment, it’s pretty interesting to see how Tor is developing. The concepts of alternative routing are fascinating on a very large scale like the Internet.

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