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The Tor open source project, like the rest of the world, has been affected by the Corona crisis and has had to fire 13 people who worked on the Tor project. However, with a team of 22 people, work on the Tor browser will continue and the Tor software ecosystem will continue, the organization said in a donation and sponsor-funded blog post.
“The world will no longer be the same”
The organization mourned the loss of its valuable teammates, but the difficult decision was made to ensure the existence of the Tor project. “The world will not be the same after the crisis, and the need for privacy and secure access to information will be more important,” the organization continues in the blog post.
The Tor network anonymizes connection data and allows browsing without tracking, for example. For users in countries with censorship, the Tor browser is usually the only way to access the Internet and associated services without restrictions. Around 2 million people worldwide use the Tor network.
(bme)
