Tor still runs on altruism, but cheap hosting is pulling it off course

Tor still runs on altruism, but cheap hosting is pulling it off course

Millions of people rely on a network of unpaid volunteers to stay anonymous online, and for 25 years that network has run on altruism rather than profit. Tor, short for The Onion Router, routes a user’s traffic through three volunteer operated relays, as many as 9,000 of them scattered across the globe, so no single relay knows both who is asking and where they are going.  At the DEF CON security conference, Tor Project cofounder Roger Dingledin…