The Tor Project has hired Shari Steele, former head of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She will be the main voice and face of the Tor Project, tasked with raising its profile, securing new sources of funding and expanding the use of its anonymity software and tools to the broader public. The Tor network uses layers of encryption to shield your location and the location of any hidden services you use. Despite the rapid growth of people using Tor in the wake of revelations of NSA surveillance by leaker Edward Snowden, it is far from mainstream”]