Tor-Flyer For Police And Citizens On The Internet Anonymously

Every day, hundreds of thousands of people using the Tor network to protect their online identity and privacy. Yet there is still much confusion about how the Tor network and the importance of online anonymity. Therefore, the Tor Project has several informative flyers ( pdf ) made ​​for police and citizens explaining the operation of the Tor network and the importance of anonymous internet.

Through the Tor network users can hide their IP address such as "hidden" visit websites that are only accessible through the Tor network. In recent months, several of these sites by the authorities off the air. The most Tor users are ordinary citizens who want to keep control over their privacy, so the Tor Project has announced in the flyer for police and investigative services.

The network is also used by journalists, activists and people in countries with totalitarian regimes or internet censorship. It is also handy for police and undercover operations. So use investigative services also the Tor network for their research."Because of the identity and location of hiding researchers Tor can be a valuable tool for successful online undercover operations," so let the flyer.

There is created a flyer for citizens showing the importance of anonymous Internet and online freedom is explained. According to the Tor Project is anonymity under fire as never before, allowing the ability to share free information on the Internet is undermined. "Countries monitors on each other and their citizens, block websites, watching the contents of traffic and reduce important world news." Organizations that deal with internet freedom can also order the flyers.

China Censor Messages On Google And Mozilla CNNIC

The Chinese authorities have messages from Google and Mozilla censored stating that Chinese certificate authority (CA) CNNIC has been involved in the issue of rogue Google certificate. Reported GreatFire.org , an organization that monitors censorship in China.

The rogue Google certificate which Google, Microsoft and Mozilla this week sounded the alarm had been created by the Egyptian company MCS Holding. The company had been given the opportunity of CNNIC, which is a root CA. As root CA is CNNIC trusted by all major browsers. CNNIC had spent an intermediate certificate for MCS Holding, which the company for arbitrary domains could create SSL certificates. Because the intermediate certificate of CNNIC came, they were created SSL certificates also trusted by browsers.

Both Mozilla and Google warned of rogue certificates and announced measures to protect their users. A famous Chinese IT blogger translated the message from Google that both Google and the Chinese search engine Baidu was well indexed. Not much later, the blogger via Twitter announced that he had received a call from the government that he had to remove his post immediately, which he did. The article Mozilla was acquired by several Chinese sites, including the state-owned Huanqiu.

Eventually, all these articles deleted. "This shows again the role CNNIC in the censorship apparatus. CNNIC was, is and will continue to internet censorship," said Great Fire. The organization calls Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple also to say and draw the root certificate from the organization's confidence in CNNIC to protect users worldwide.