IRC: ohmygodel
NRL researcher in applied cryptography with an interest in Tor’s security and privacy.
IRC: flexlibris
Pronoun: she
Leads the Community Team and Library Freedom Project. Works on support, outreach, and training.
IRC: gunner
Executive Director of Aspiration, where he works with NGOs, activists, and human rights groups.
IRC: hellais
Project leader for OONI, has helped with tor2web, wrote Atlas which later became Relay Search, and helps improve security.
Pronoun: she
Tor Board member and Executive Director of the EFF. Lawyer by training, her focus is on making sure Tor stays available and that Tor users stay safe.
IRC: Phoul
Relay advocate, Outreachy mentor, and a member of the community team. Also a director of the Canadian Torservers.net partner Coldhak.
IRC: biella
Anthropologist and Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.
IRC: saint
Tamper-resistant software distribution, censorship detection, Cupcake, and security training of activists and domestic violence survivors.
Pronoun: he
Professor of CS at the University of Waterloo, developing Off-the-Record Messaging among other things.
IRC: redshiftzero
Lead developer of the SecureDrop whistleblower platform based at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
IRC: karsten
Pronoun: he
Primary researcher and anonymous metrics developer which started as a National Science Foundation grant.
IRC: kushal
Pronoun: he
SecureDrop developer at the Freedom of Press Foundation. Community team and advocate for new users.
IRC: ln5
Pronoun: he
Co-founder of the Swedish Torservers.net partner :DFRI. Sysadmin team and runs a directory authority.
IRC: agrabeli
Pronoun: she
Maria manages OONI's Partnership Program and writes research reports on internet censorship around the world.
IRC: pastly
Matt implemented the KIST scheduler into Tor. He helps safely measure Tor and says helpful things on IRC.
Developer of OnionShare and Tor Browser Launcher journalist and security engineer at The Intercept and advocate for freedom of the press.
IRC: n8fr8
Guardian Project founder. Orbot lead developer and contributor to Orfox, Onion Browser and NetCipher SDK. Director of Technology at Tibet Action Institute.
IRC: nickhopper
Pronoun: he
Researcher interested in improving Tor's performance and resistance to traffic analysis. Some of my work is described here.
IRC: nickm
Pronoun: he
One of the three original designers of Tor. Does ongoing design work, coordinates and leads development.
IRC: syverson
NRL researcher on most things Tor. Inventor of onion routing, and one of the three original designers of Tor.
IRC: phw
Maintains exitmap and sybilhunter, works on bad relay detection, and does security and privacy research.
IRC: sjmurdoch
Pronoun: he
Principal Research Fellow at University College London. He is the original creator of the Tor Browser.
IRC: tjr
Pronoun: he
Maintains Consensus Health , runs one of the bandwidth authorities, and contributes to Tor Browser.
IRC: wseltzer
Pronoun: she
Techie lawyer and former Tor board member. Works on legal and policy support for private and secure communications.
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