[nylug-talk] [FC-discuss] Protect Your Students and Your Privacy: A New Project (fwd)

[Jay Sulzberger]

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  Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:15:01 -0000
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  Subject: [FC-discuss] Protect Your Students and Your Privacy: A New Project

  Hi Everyone-

  My name is Brendan Ballou, and I'm from the Free Culture chapter at
  Columbia. Some of you may have already heard about EFF's onion router
  (Tor, http://tor.eff.org/). Basically Tor is a program that prevents
  outside parties (your university, your ISP, the RIAA, etc) from tracking
  your movements on the web (all of it â€“ including file sharing). It's an
  incredibly useful tool - one in fact that Chinese dissidents use to keep
  information from the Chinese government.

  Last semester we modified Tor to run only over the Columbia University
  intranet. Our modified program, the Columbia University Local Area Tor
  (CU-LATOR) ran much faster than the standard version, and now we want to
  expand to other universities that participate in Internet2 (to maintain
  network speed). If you would be interested in having your school
  participate in this larger, nation-wide uni-tor (we're working on a
  name), please email me, because the more schools that participate, the
  faster the network will run and the safer all our information will be.
  You don't need to be a coder to be involved, we just need boots on the
  ground to help publicize the program and get people to use it. You can
  check if your school participates in Internet2 here:
  http://members.internet2.edu/university/universities.cfm

  However, if you are a coder we need your help too. Right now Tor only
  runs on Mac and Linux - we need people to help build software for
  Windows. Iif you're interested in being involved in that project, email
  Ron Gejman at rsg2119 at columbia.edu.

  This is a fun project, and an important one too. We hope we can get your
  help in keeping students' data safe and private.

  Best,

  Brendan Ballou

  bcb2114 at columbia.edu

  URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/06/21/protect-your-students-and-your-privacy-a-new-project/
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