Posted on 08/21/2016 7:58:03 PM PDT by Theoria
A small library in New Hampshire sits at the forefront of global efforts to promote privacy and fight government surveillance — to the consternation of law enforcement.
The Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, a city of 13,000, last year became the nation's first library to use Tor, software that masks the location and identity of internet users, in a pilot project initiated by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Library Freedom Project. Users the world over can — and do — have their searches randomly routed through the library.
Computers that have Tor loaded on them bounce internet searches through a random pathway, or series of relays, of other computers equipped with Tor. This network of virtual tunnels masks the location and internet protocol address of the person doing the search.
In a feature that makes Kilton unique among U.S. libraries, it also has a computer with a Tor exit relay, which delivers the internet query to the destination site and becomes identified as the last-known source of the query.
Alison Macrina, founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, said her organization chose Kilton for its pilot project because it had embraced other privacy-enhancing software the project recommended and because she knew the library had the know-how take it to the complicated exit-relay stage.
Tor can protect shoppers, victims of domestic violence, whistleblowers, dissidents, undercover agents — and criminals — alike. A recent routine internet search using Tor on one of Kilton's computers was routed through Ukraine, Germany and the Netherlands.
"Libraries are bastions of freedom," said Shari Steele, executive director of the Tor Project, a nonprofit started in 2004 to promote the use of Tor worldwide. "They are a great natural ally."
There are about 7,200 relays and 1,000 exit relays worldwide, with more being added steadily, Steele said.
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Does this mean that child pornography is now available at my local library?
Could be or not at all. People also use public roads to get away from committing a crime.
What are all these uber lib progressive librarians going to do when Obama gives internet control to Mecca and Beijing?
No. You use your own computer at home.
Google TOR or read the article ...
It probably always has been available. .
.it’s “free speech”...that’s what libraries in Washington state claim.
People also use public roads to get away from committing a crime.
= = =
But they didn’t build it.
This should come as no surprise.
New Hampshire is rated #1 on the USA freedom index (Cato Institute and others).
It also is home to America’s Free State movement.
It’s always best to err on the side of freedom.
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Is there a problem here? Oh, the ‘consternation’ of the Police State...boo hoo.
Will we see a lot of posts, “Well, ‘illegal activities’ *might* be assisted...So we must err on the side of ‘the Law’ instead of Freedom.”?
SOMEONE might be having FUN!
It will be pedophile central, I am against this policy. It’s not for libraries to be providing this, trust me, this is for left wing liberals
Ah, No the Barracuda Fire Wall would block that like it already does..heh heh
To the government tools spouting propaganda about CP: shut up, go away, and fantasize about defeating trained soldiers wielding machineguns and riding in tanks with your deer rifle and your old Jeep.
I guess it was too much to be ask for people who supposedly don’t like government intrusion to not be completely fooled by the propaganda line about Tor being for CP (especially funny since at least half of the content of the ‘regular’ internet is porn) and not stab us in the back.
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