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Kenji Sato

Kenji Sato

Security researcher and writer telling the real stories behind privacy technology.

Kenji Sato is a security researcher with a soft spot for the history and human drama behind privacy technology — from the birth of onion routing to the people who fought to keep the internet open. He believes the best way to understand a tool is to understand where it came from and who it was built to protect.

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The History of Tor: How a US Navy Project Became the Internet's Anonymity Network
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The History of Tor: How a US Navy Project Became the Internet's Anonymity Network

Tor was built by US Navy researchers to protect spies online — but to work, it had to be given away to everyone. The real history of Tor, onion routing, and how it differs from a VPN.