“At 9:15 one Thursday morning, there came a polite knock on my mostly closed office door,” writes Paul Cesarini, an assistant professor of visual communication and technology education at Bowling Green State University. “I was expecting the knock. A student was coming to talk to me about getting into one of my courses.”
Needless to say, Mr. Cesarini was rather surprised when a network-security administrator walked in, accompanied by a pair of campus police officers.
The visitors wanted to talk about Mr. Cesarini’s use of Tor, an open-source program that lets people surf the Web anonymously. Tor has plenty of valuable and legitimate applications, the professor writes, but widespread use “would be a huge headache for network-security administrators, particularly in higher education” Read the full story.
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