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why's it called tor?

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@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ routers'). Users bounce their tcp streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc)
around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
1.2. Why's it called tor?
Because tor is the onion routing system. I kept telling people I was
working on onion routing, and they said "Neat. Which one?" Even if onion
routing has become a standard household term, this is the actual onion
routing project, started out of the Naval Research Lab.
(Theories about recursive acronyms are ok too.)
2. Compiling and installing.