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How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship | WIRED

For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies, Tor encrypts your web traffic and sends it through a chain of computers, making it very hard for people to track you online. Authoritarian governments see it as a particular threat to their longevity, and in recent months, Russia has stepped up its long-term ambition to block Tor—although not without a fight.

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Source: How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship | WIRED