Tor project asks Amazon to add bandwidth through its cloud
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Amazon's cloud service Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offers virtual computer capacity, and developers at Tor are calling on people to sign up to the Amazon service and run a bridge.
The Tor Project allows people to route their online communications anonymously and is used by activists as well as others seeking anonymity. It has been used in countries with oppressive political regimes.
Anonymity is one the most important factors when you want to make use of your right of free speech; especially when the country you are living in is anything but friendly, like Syria. Unfortunately, some out there believe that Tor also is a good tool for filesharing. Not only makes this the network way slower for people who actually have to rely on it, but it also doesn't makes much sense, since Tor bandwidth is usually exceptionally low.