{"id":176693,"date":"2016-08-22T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176693"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:48:33","slug":"calls-for-tor-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/176693-calls-for-tor-shutdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Tor shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group is calling for a\u00a024-hour shutdown of the Tor network to protest recent developments at\u00a0the project.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/internal-group-wants-to-shut-down-tor-for-a-day-on-september-1-507513.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Softpedia<\/a><\/strong>, the reasons for the protest include the way Tor dealt with\u00a0the Jake Applebaum sexual misconduct accusations and because of recent rumours it is letting\u00a0former government agents into its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is called #torstrike, and was uploaded on the GhostBin website.<\/p>\n<p>It asks Tor users not to use the service for 24 hours and for Tor workers to shut down nodes and not work on the Tor Project&#8217;s software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call for protest called on other Tor-related projects like the Tails OS and the Library Freedom Project to join the Tor blackout,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0browsers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176663-netscape-navigator-3-0-20-year-anniversary.html\">Netscape Navigator 3.0 20-year anniversary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175459-chrome-will-start-to-block-flash.html\">Chrome will start to block Flash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group is calling for a 24-hour shutdown of the Tor network to protest recent developments at the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2818],"class_list":["post-176693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176695,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176693\/revisions\/176695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}