Tor (2002)
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory released Tor, an onion-routing network that hides a user's identity by bouncing traffic through multiple relays. It became the standard tool for anonymous browsing, used by journalists, activists, and criminals alike.
Tor grew into a global anonymity network with millions of daily users.
It proved onion routing works at scale, but also showed anonymity tools attract both praise and scrutiny from governments.
doxx.net uses onion routing for the same privacy reasons and faces the same dual-use questions about who benefits from anonymity.
