Network Engineer Tries to Thwart UK Bill That Plans to Expand Surveillance State
As the UK parliament is on the precipice of passing a new surveillance bill into law, one British engineer is trying to halt its progress through an anonymizing system that runs on top of the Tor anonymity network. OnionDSL: The Tor-based ISP. British lawmakers are on the verge of passing a new law that expands the government’s ability to snoop on its citizens, and one network engineer believes he has a way to counter it. The bill, which is championed by current Prime Minister Theresa May, generally aims to implement mass government surveillance throughout the UK. Also called “Snoopers’....
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