This is the second of a three-part series of articles about TOR. On Monday we took a look at the surprising origins of the TOR network. Today we will be taking a look at how TOR works.
To use TOR, a person just needs to go to The TOR Project , and download an install the TOR web browser. Then it makes sense to read the TOR warning document. The rules include:
TOR or The Onion Router is one of the greatest anonymizer services available on the Internet, and allows anyone to use the Internet without revealing their source IP address, and through that, their location. Yet as recently as last November, when the FBI took down the Silk Road server and arrested its operator , and Interpol followed up with the seizure of 400 Dark Web marketplace sites and the arrest ...
It has been two years since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the programs behind the largest mass surveillance programs ever mounted by a government against its own citizens. The fact that it was taking place here, in the land of the free and home of the brave was a sad day for the constitutional republic knows as the United ...
“Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they are not out to get you.”
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the domestic surveillance activities of the NSA and other US and foreign government agencies, it turns out that many people have changed their online and telephone communication behavior. accord to a recent post on Sophos:
Continue Reading →“Out of those surveyed who are at least somewhat aware of the NSA’s surveillance programs (30% of adults), 34% have taken at least one step to ...