Talk:The Tor Project

Why is it called Tor?

why is it called tor? tor means hill and is a research facility in antartica...

why would it be called tor unless it is an abbreviation?

thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.171.64 (talk) 01:03, 28 May 2015‎

See https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WhyCalledTor. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 09:07, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

@Dodi 8238 tor is a short form that means "The Onion Router" Yaboibro! (talk) 07:11, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Proposed Addition

I am (as my name suggests) a current volunteer for The Tor Project. In order to maintain transparency and avoid conflict of interest, I'd like to make an edit request for this page to include information about the hiring of Shari Steele as The Tor Project's executive director. I've pasted a proposed edit below. It would make the most sense to place this paragraph before the other paragraph that starts “In December 2015”, as Shari Steele was announced as executive director on December 11 (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/announcing-shari-steele-our-new-executive-director) and the bug bounty program was announced on the 29th (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-tor-project-is-starting-a-bug-bounty-program).

In December 2015, The Tor Project announced that it had hired Shari Steele, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as its new executive director. Roger Dingledine, who had been acting as interim executive eirector since May 2015, remained at The Tor Project as a director and board member.[1][2][3]

[1]https://blog.torproject.org/blog/roger-dingledine-becomes-interim-executive-director-tor-project [2]http://www.scmagazine.com/former-eff-executive-director-takes-reins-at-tor-project/article/459249/ [3]http://www.wired.com/2015/12/tor-hires-a-new-leader-to-help-it-combat-the-war-on-privacy/

										1specificTorvolunteer (talk) 02:11, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

 Done —  crh ₂₃  (Talk) 07:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

where is the last period?

Might be some stylistic detail I'm not familiar with, but where's the period after Inc? It looks awfully awkward as it is, as though Inc is an unabbreviated part of the name. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 06:39, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose to merge Tor Phone into Tor Project. I think that the project in that article can easily be merged as a project of tor, and the Tor Phone article is of a reasonable size that the merging with tor project will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned. Also that article(tor phone) has lots of unnecessary text that will be truncated in the process. --Greatder (talk) 08:28, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Seems you mean into Tor (network). That's where you've been going ahead and doing it, despite ongoing consensus against it on that talk page. -- Yae4 (talk) 22:23, 20 August 2021 (UTC)