Tor Cloud Project killed-off by failure to fix software bugs

Grazed from ComputerWeekly.  Author: Caroline Donnelly.

The closure of the Tor Cloud Project should be seized by users as an opportunity to find an alternative way to access the internet anonymously using the cloud, its operators have claimed.  The Tor Cloud Project was set up in November 2011 so users could deploy Tor bridges using Amazon EC2 instances and – in doing so – donate bandwidth for other members of the Tor network to use.

However, since hitting peak usage in mid-2013, the number of Tor Cloud bridges being deployed has steadily dropped off and now the operators of the pro-privacy internet network have called time on it completely…


“The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is that software requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception,” the operator confirmed in a blog post…

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