Article Title: The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
Article Excerpt: "...Tor is mostly known as the Dark Web or Dark Net, seen as an online Wild West where crime runs rampant. Yet it’s partly funded by the U.S. government, and the BBC and Facebook both have Tor-only versions to allow users in authoritarian countries to reach them.
At its simplest, Tor is a distributed digital infrastructure that makes you anonymous online. It is a network of servers spread around the world..."
Reference Source: mitpress.mit.edu
