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Tor Shutting Down Anonymous Cloud Service

posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the dissapearing-clouds dept.

fliptop writes:

Tor is shutting down Tor Cloud due to lack of programmers helping keep the software maintained:

Launched in 2011 the Tor Cloud Project acted as a conduit to bring extra users to the fold. However, according to the Tor network blog, there simply are not enough developers contributing to the project to run it effectively.

"The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is the fact that software requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception," Tor says.

Without a pool of Tor developers to keep the software up-to-date and bug free, the service has become little more than a risk to the security and privacy of users.

Also on TechWorm.net.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:03AM (#181853)

    Well gee I thought you just uploaded your idea to The Cloud and the code magically wrote itself.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @04:29PM (#181987)

    Even for a magical code writing cloud, you'll have to write the code yourself: You need the code of the cloud to run the cloud, but you would need the cloud already running to have it write the code.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday May 13 2015, @01:23AM

      by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @01:23AM (#182200) Journal

      Even for a magical code writing cloud, you'll have to write the code yourself: You need the code of the cloud to run the cloud, but you would need the cloud already running to have it write the code.

      Not if you have the cloud code a time machine.