Transnational Anti‑Censorship Campaigns and Circumvention Tools (Tor, VPNs, etc.) (2002–2016)

1. Tor network first deployed and open-sourced

   Oct 1, 2002Labels: Tor Network

   • Tor History
   • Tor Network

2. Tor design presented at USENIX Security Symposium

   Aug 1, 2004Labels: USENIX Paper, Tor Design

   • USENIX
   • USENIX HTML

3. EFF becomes sponsor of Tor development

   Dec 21, 2004Labels: Electronic Frontier

   • EFF
   • Tor History

4. Tor Project incorporated as a nonprofit

   Dec 22, 2006Labels: Tor Project

   • Tor Project
   • Tor History

5. Tor begins developing bridge relays for censorship

   Jan 1, 2007Labels: Tor Bridges

   • Tor History
   • Tor Support

6. Tor Browser Bundle announced for easier access

   Feb 4, 2008Labels: Tor Browser

   • Tor Talk
   • Tor Network

7. Orbot brings Tor-based circumvention to Android

   Oct 1, 2008Labels: Orbot, Guardian Project

   • Orbot
   • Guardian

8. Tor is used during early Arab Spring period

   Dec 1, 2010Labels: Arab Spring, Tor Usage

   • Tor History

9. Flash proxy research begins for rapid, disposable relays

   Apr 1, 2011Labels: Flash Proxies

   • Stanford

10. Flash proxies deployed in Tor Browser

    Jan 1, 2013Labels: Flash Proxies, Pluggable Transports

    • Stanford

11. Lantern gains attention as a circumvention alternative

    Dec 6, 2013Labels: Lantern

    • Register
    • Lantern

12. Study measures censor blocking delays for Tor bridges

    May 27, 2016Labels: Bridge Blocking

    • arXiv