In August of 2023 EFF announced the , a campaign to get more universities around the world to operate Tor relays. The primary goal of this campaign is to strengthen the Tor network by creating more high bandwidth and reliable Tor nodes.
We started the campaign with thirteen institutions: Technical University Berlin (Germany) Boston University (US) University of Cambridge (England) Carnegie Mellon University (US) University College London (England) Georgetown University (US) Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Austria) Karlstad University (Sweden) KU Leuven (Belgium) University of Michigan (US) University of Minnesota (US) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) University of Waterloo (Canada)
Since August, we've spent much of our time discovering and making contact with existing relays. People at these institutions were already accomplishing the campaign goals, but hadn't made it into the launch: University of North Carolina (US) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) University of the Philippines (Philippines) University of Bremen (Germany) University of Twente (Netherlands) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Universitatea Politehnica TimiÈoara (Romania)
In addition, two of the institutions in the original launch list have started public relays. University of Michigan used to run only a Snowflake back-end bridge, and now they're running a new exit relay too. Georgetown U
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