Logo_White

daily dot backup image

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_post_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_post_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_3:2

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero_1:1

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_post_card_square

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_16x9_full_width

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_3x2_full_width

lede_article_featured_1x1

lede_article_featured_1x1_full_width

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_featured_flexible_full_width

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

lede_leaderboard

Main Header Menu

Logo_2a8517

The Daily Dot

Daily Dot Contributor

37470f320a33e044f13cbff94f579241.jpg

How I created a new digital identity—and you can too

d76e90b9af414b60c7e6daf06701b2f6.jpg

Tor Project addresses servers allegedly used by Russian hackers

Efe Kerem Sözeri is a Turkish freelance researcher who lives in the Netherlands. After studying political science in Istanbul, he moved to Amsterdam to study migrants&#8217; political behavior. Besides his academic work, he regularly writes on internet freedom and censorship in Turkey.

Efe Kerem Sozeri

shutterstock_408220678.jpg

Activists fight back against Turkish government’s block on Tor and VPNs

19e7324638c672ba5d7296283ac3b9d7.jpg

Investigation confirms Jacob Appelbaum sexual misconduct at Tor Project

4c17c203f738955bfcdfdf4fdf0f3062.jpg

2 more people publicly allege sexual misconduct by Jacob Appelbaum

e6b065157babf95174451146b37da98c.jpg

Security engineer goes public about Appelbaum: ‘I felt afraid and violated’

uganda_flag.jpg

How Ugandans are beating government censorship amid violent election unrest

cca4d3dfaea7f587b381408c31003cbe.jpg

Here’s what you really need to know about encryption

enclock2.jpg

Culture

Senior Homeland Security official says Internet anonymity should be outlawed

ff7183d05f5de67f1dbf54b51f087ee6.jpg

10 anti-surveillance tools that protect your privacy online

f550f2ec31c3ca2275ce2b28a0bc8d20.jpg

Unclick

France says it won’t ban Tor, but the threat to anonymity is still real

23ccfba0a46bdc5f6e0e2a4af3aa4784.jpg

Tor use skyrockets in Bangladesh after government bans social networks

Patrick Howell O&#8217;Neill is a notable cybersecurity reporter whose work has focused on the dark net, national security, and law enforcement. A former senior writer at the Daily Dot, O&#8217;Neill joined CyberScoop in October 2016.
I am a cybersecurity journalist at CyberScoop. I cover the security industry, national security and law enforcement.

Tor