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Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: sciencekid on 19/01/2012 22:51:41

Title: What is TOR?
Post by: sciencekid on 19/01/2012 22:51:41

What is TOR and how does it work?

Please always express the title of a thread as a question - moderator.

Title: Re: TOR
Post by: RD on 20/01/2012 10:56:05

A mix network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network) : an attempt to allow anonymity on the internet.

[which failed in this (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=42825.msg378149#msg378149) occasion]

Title: Re: TOR
Post by: smart on 26/06/2016 10:55:19

TOR is a free software onion routing system to protect yourself from traffic analysis and surveillance. TOR however doesn't work very well with popular search engines like Google and provides alternative search engines which allow anonymous communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing

https://www.torproject.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)