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The Onion Skin Router: TOR
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Description

The Onion Skin Router: Tor (external link) (cache) is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

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 (external link) (cache).

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Remote: http://tor.eff.org/ (external link) (cache)

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Contributors to this page: Michael Shinn20382 points  .
Page last modified on Monday 27 of November, 2006 17:54:33 EST by Michael Shinn20382 points .
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