I spent a few minutes this morning installing TOR (The Onion Router), a package of open source software that:

aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

And Traffic analyis is the web surveillance that the Republicans admit they've gotten the NSA to do.

But ya know? I just can't think of a good reason why I'd want to let NSA help the Republicans ratfuck me. Hence, tor. Here's how it works: Read more…