hi chris, can you also publish this on the regular blog? many thanks!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:54 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] please help us promote Tor and online anonymity To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Hi friends, EFF is about to roll out a campaign to encourage organizations and individuals to run Tor relays. For those of you that don't know, Tor is software and a network of volunteers worldwide that help people be anonymous online by masking IP addresses. Individuals (like many bloggers in authoritarian regimes) need the Tor network to communicate safely. Unfortunately, the people who need Tor the most are often not in a position to run Tor relays and contribute to the Tor network. Those of us who care deeply about online privacy can make a tangible impact by participating in the Tor network. EFF is reaching out to privacy and free speech organizations and asking them to join us in helping to grow the Tor network. We're hoping that by working together as a movement, we can make a significant impact in the size of the Tor network - and help people worldwide safeguard their online privacy. To participate, organizations need to set up a Tor relay. All relays count, including exit nodes, bridges and middle nodes. EFF has created an instructional video on setting up a Tor relay and we're updating our legal FAQ to provide a more detailed analysis about how U.S. law applies to Tor. Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmj4bILqiY Organizations that participate in our challenge will be thanked on our social media accounts and promoted on our website. We are emailing you now because we'd like to give the human rights community a head-start. It's our hope that when we roll out this campaign next week, the initial participants will be the many organizations in the human rights community who are working hard to defend human rights on the Internet. Please contact Rainey Reitman, EFF Activism Director ([email protected]) and Eva Galperin ([email protected]) about this campaign and please do not hesitate to ask her any questions about the campaign. And, please do not promote this campaign out of this list until we launch next week. Thanks! -- Katitza Rodriguez International Rights Director Electronic Frontier Foundation [email protected] [email protected] (personal email) Please support EFF - Working to protect your digital rights and freedom of speech since 1990 _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list [email protected] http://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens