Running a Tor node is an excellent way to advocate for privacy while learning system administration. The cost is likely a lot cheaper than you think. Tor Enables Human Rights Human rights including privacy and freedom of speech are under attack worldwide [1]. We need a need a decentralized, guerrilla movement for resistance that is not purely technological. [2] However, technology is an essential part of enabling the resistance to things like information censorship and anonymity, specially in the short term. Tor is a specially important technology that can help meet requirements in both of these areas. Tor is a logical overlay network for the internet that provides anonymisation of IP address and when paired with the Tor browser, helps defeat fingerprinting that enables web surveillance. Tor also allows publishing of anonymous internet services, called “onion” or “hidden” services. Tor is used to exercise freedoms of association, speech, to access information and is used by