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Here’s What Tor’s Data Looks Like as It Flows Around the World |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
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For a tool that’s meant to serve as a cloak of online anonymity, Tor is surprisingly transparent. The non-profit Tor project whose software powers its network of thousands of volunteer proxy computers also publishes a frequently updated collection of data about the location and bandwidth of those privacy-enhancing machines on desks and in datacenters around the world.
Now a data visualization company has assembled that data into an interactive graphic, beautifully capturing the Tor network’s complexity and scale.
TorFlow, a project created by the data visualization software firm Uncharted, maps the Tor network’s nodes and data movements based on the IP addresses and bandwidth of the “relay” computers that bounce around its users’ connections to prevent them from being censored or surveilled.
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