"Isabela Fernandes believes free, open-source software has helped build the internet, and will be key to improving it for all. As executive director of the Tor Project – the nonprofit behind the decentralized, onion-routing network providing crucial online anonymity to activists and dissidents around the world – she has fought tirelessly for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become one of the world's strongest tools for privacy and freedom online.
Fernandes joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
- How the Tor network protects the anonymity of internet users around the world, and why that’s so important
- Why online privacy is NOT only for “people who have something to hide”
- The importance of making more websites friendly and accessible to Tor and similar systems
- How Tor can actually benefit law enforcement
- How free, open-source software can power economic booms"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number
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