Tor

From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Ben Collier

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MIT Press
16 April 2024

Technology: general issues

"A biography of Tor-a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.

A biography of Tor-a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.

Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real ""dark web,"" when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book- where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In Tor- From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, Ben Collier has written, in essence, a biography of Tor-a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, politics, and empire in the deepest reaches of the internet.

The story of Tor begins in the 1990s with its creation by the US Navy's Naval Research Lab, from a convergence of different cultural worlds. Drawing on in-depth interviews with designers, developers, activists, and users, along with twenty years of mailing lists, design documents, reporting, and legal papers, Collier traces Tor's evolution from those early days to its current operation on the frontlines of global digital power-including the strange collaboration between US military scientists and a group of freewheeling hackers called the Cypherpunks. As Collier charts the rise and fall of three different cultures in Tor's diverse community-the engineers, the maintainers, and the activists, each with a distinct understanding of and vision for Tor-he reckons with Tor's complicated, changing relationship with contemporary US empire. Ultimately, the book reveals how different groups of users have repurposed Tor and built new technologies and worlds of their own around it, with profound implications for the future of the Internet."

By: Ben Collier
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262548182
ISBN 10: 0262548186
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION: ONION AND ON AND ON 1 1 PRIVACY WORLDS 9 2 THE WORLDS OF THE INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE 25 3 TOR’S STRANGE BEGINNINGS 37 4 DESIGNING THE ONION 51 5 ENTER THE MAINTAINERS 77 6 THE ONION GROWS ROOTS 97 7 THE DARK NET RISES123 8 THE ACTIVISTS 149 9 FACING WORLDS 173 10 PRIVACY FUTURES 193 AFTERWORD 209 Notes 211 Index 227

Ben Collier is Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

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From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

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