anoni.netAnonymity Networks Community
Bringing global Internet privacy issues home to the Sinophone region.
A community based in Taiwan working on anonymity networks and Internet freedom. We have long promoted Tor, Tails and OONI, and work with EFF, the Tor Project and OONI to bring global issues into the context of the Sinophone region.
What we are working on in 2026
- Personal privacy guidancePractical guidance graded by exposure: everyday use, sensitive work and high-risk situations.
- Tor relays on campusCampus relays with EFF and the Tor Project. NTNU runs one, and the proposal kit and SOP are public.
- Anonymous paymentsPaying anonymously beyond cash, from stablecoins to on-chain tools, with the law around them. Research stage.
Projects
Guides to anonymity networks and privacy, from concepts and tools to preparing for specific situations, plus Taiwan's network measurements and regulations.
News on privacy, anonymity networks and Internet censorship, read from a tech and open-source angle with a view from Asia. Every story links to its original sources.
Strip metadata, redact and encrypt files before you hand them over, and lay out leads to verify in files you receive, all in your browser without uploading.
A VPN the community runs for the people around it, for places where VPNs often fail: at school, in hotels, abroad. No email address or payment needed. Invite codes go out in rounds for now.
Each request is a case: find the leaks in photos, files and writing, and learn to protect your own privacy and other people's.
Services
Latest updates
- Announcing Vessel, a community VPNA VPN the anoni.net community runs for the people around it, for places where VPNs often fail, such as schools, hotels and abroad, now open by invitation. An overview of its nodes in Taipei, Tokyo and Singapore, relay routes, DNS filtering and how to get an invite code.
- Speakers' slides from the COSCUP 2026 trackSlides from 11 talks in the anoni.net community track at COSCUP 2026, plus one recording, are now on the track page, each with a one-line summary, covering threat models, open-source privacy tools, anonymous payments, campus Tor relays, browser tracking and Taiwan's health insurance database.
- Privacy Mysteries at anoni.net/mysteryA privacy mystery game from anoni.net. Each case is a request to find the leaks in photos, emails and files; why we made it and how we hope it is used.
Articles
- One Year of Research on the Geedge LeakAfter internal files from Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab leaked, researchers could for the first time compare the Great Firewall against the source code of commercial censorship equipment. This article reviews what two papers and civil society investigations confirmed over the year, what remains uncertain, and where news reporting and the papers' wording diverge.
- The October 2026 Tor Exit Relay Compromise and Operator Security ChecksIn early October 2026 the exit policies of hundreds of Tor exit relays were altered to intercept SSH logins. This article covers what happened, how the various figures were counted, what is still unresolved, and how relay operators can check, respond to and prevent a compromise.
- Gears File Workbench and Its Local-Processing DesignWhy Gears grew out of the docs site's tools, and how CSP, dependency review and an analytics allowlist let readers check for themselves whether files leave their device.
Take part
Plenty needs no account at all: search with the community's SearXNG, read the guides in the docs, or subscribe to the newsletter. To join the discussion, say hello on Matrix.