Anonymous Tor Cloud Project Closes Down 23
Mark Wilson writes: The Tor browser is used by many to stay anonymous online — and it's something that has been embraced by the likes of WikiLeaks as a way to safely gather information whilst hopefully avoiding the surveillance of the NSA. One lesser known project from the same stables is the Tor Cloud service, and Tor has announced that it is closing down. From the linked article: Based on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform, Tor Cloud provided a way to share computing resources and allow faster uncensored access to the internet. However, the project is plagued with 'at least one major bug ... that makes it completely dysfunctional' and after failing to find anyone to undertake the work, the decision was taken to shutter Tor Cloud. This does not mean that Tor itself is dead — far from it — and developers are being encouraged to create their own forked versions of Tor Cloud.
Code that *never* functioned dies, slashdot frontp (Score:2, Interesting)
Seriously, TorCloud never actually worked. It isn't even an amazingly challenging thing as many other projects do the exact same thing. Why is it news that they gave up? It's just rather pathetic.
As long as Tor can be detected (Score:1)
It will always be deader than Generalissimo Francisco Franco
Re: (Score:2)
Is there even a conceptual way that something like Tor could be run that would prevent it from being detected.
That long black cloud is coming down (Score:2)
Oh come on.. (Score:2, Funny)
Windows has MULTIPLE major bugs that cause total dysfunction, you don't see anyone calling an end to the madness there...
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you don't see anyone calling an end to the madness there...
Are you new here?
This might be a good thing... (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm not sure how this was setup, but hosting a disproportionate number nodes on a particular cloud service (Amazon) in theory increases the risk to users ending up on three nodes of which are essentially controlled by the same entity. In an ideal world it would work on Amazeon, Google, Microsoft, Gandi, Linode, and lots of different "cloud" providers.
It never worked for me (Score:2)
I ran a Tor Cloud instance on EC2 a while back. 100% stock, followed the documentation to set it up, but it never got any traffic. My home Tor bridge got plenty of traffic, however, so I don't think it's something I did wrong.