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This Engineer Started a Tor-Based Internet Provider to Fight Surveillance

August 5, 2016

Last month at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York, Llewelyn presented OnionDSL, a Tor-based system designed for his one-man ISP, Brass Horn Communications. But unlike a normal ISP, Brass Horn’s routing system prevents Llewelyn from keeping any logs whatsoever of a subscriber’s web browsing.

To use the service, a subscriber would need to physically migrate their broadband connection over to Brass Horn Communications and then configure their home router or PC to connect with Llewelyn’s Tor bridge, a type of private gateway that allows people to access the Tor network from countries where its publicly-listed entry points are normally blocked.

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