The Onion Skin Router: Tor
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Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
If you use TOR, please consider donating to its development. You can do so at the TOR donation page
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Why You Shouldn’t Run BitTorrent Over Tor
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Contributors to this page: Michael Shinn
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Page last modified on Monday 27 of November, 2006 17:54:33 EST by Michael Shinn
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