Tor Browser is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor Browser provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Why we need Tor Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as 'traffic analysis.' Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is talking to whom over a public network. Knowing the source and destination of your Internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests.

This can impact your checkbook if, for example, an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or institution of origin. It can even threaten your job and physical safety by revealing who and where you are. For example, if you're travelling abroad and you connect to your employer's computers to check or send mail, you can inadvertently reveal your national origin and professional affiliation to anyone observing the network, even if the connection is encrypted. Hidden services Tor Browser also makes it possible for users to hide their locations while offering various kinds of services, such as web publishing or an instant messaging server. Using Tor 'rendezvous points,' other Tor users can connect to these hidden services, each without knowing the other's network identity. This hidden service functionality could allow Tor users to set up a website where people publish material without worrying about censorship.

Nobody would be able to determine who was offering the site, and nobody who offered the site would know who was posting to it. Learn more about configuring hidden services and how the hidden service protocol works. Staying anonymous Tor can't solve all anonymity problems. It focuses only on protecting the transport of data. You need to use protocol-specific support software if you don't want the sites you visit to see your identifying information. For example, you can use Tor Browser while browsing the web to withhold some information about your computer's configuration.

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The Internet has completely revolutionised the way we access information. When you’re connected to the World Wide web, it often feels like you have all the information in the world at your fingertips, but the Internet does have its downsides. In recent years many users have become particularly concerned that their online activities may be being monitored – and with good reason. The most obvious digital spies, are hackers or other criminals who may be watching your online movements in an attempt to obtain your personal information, but they’re not the only prying digital eyes you need to worry about. Your Internet provider, government agencies or even corporations may be monitoring your online movements, whether they’re targeting you specifically (unlikely) or passively gathering data (much more likely).

With growing concerns over online privacy, many Internet users are looking for ways to make sure their online activities remain private, and one possible solution is to browse the web anonymously, using the infamous Tor browser. What is Tor, and how does it work? Both the Tor network and browser have gained a bit of a reputation as something that’s intrinsically linked with the Dark Web and illegal activities, but in reality Tor is much less scary: it’s just a modified version of the Firefox browser and a network that’s carefully designed to disguise your identity. While anything that keeps your identity hidden is inevitably going to attract people who want to hide their identity for all the wrong reasons, there’s plenty of legitimate reasons why someone might want to use Tor. Tor provides whistleblowers with a way of anonymously communicating with journalists and leaking information without fear of reprisal, and can be a valuable tool for law enforcement officials who need to perform covert operations online.

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For people living in countries with restrictions on the Internet, Tor also offers a way to explore the wider web without censorship. Even if you don’t fall into any of these categories, if you’re concerned about privacy then the Tor network and browser can still be a useful way of keeping your online movements private. To understand how Tor works, we need to look at how information is exchanged over the Internet.

The Internet is essentially a series of connections between computers. Some of these computers act as servers and host the data that’s stored on the Internet, and other devices act as the clients that access this data. When your Mac accesses a website, it’s a client accessing a server. Whenever a client initiates a connection to a server, data is exchanged in the form of packets. During this exchange, the client gets information from the server, but the server also gets information from the client, including information about you. The problem is that there’s no guarantee that someone isn’t monitoring this exchange of data, potentially gathering important information about you and your location.

Tor helps to ensure your online activities cannot be traced back to you, using a technique called “onion routing.” When you visit a website using the Tor browser, your Internet traffic gets routed through numerous randomly-selected nodes (also sometimes known as relays), before exiting the Tor network and arriving at the server. This makes it more difficult for anyone viewing your activity to work out who you really are. In addition, while your typical packet includes the sender’s address and the destination, the Tor browser wraps its packets in successive layers, like an onion (hence the term “onion routing”).

Each node in the series takes off a layer, sees where the packet needs to go next, and forwards it to the next node in the sequence. Each node only knows the packet’s previous location, and the next place it will be. Since no node knows the complete path, anyone who happens to be spying on that node won’t know the complete path either.

It also means that the exit node in the sequence will have no idea what your IP address is – even the website you’re accessing won’t be able to see your IP address. Downloading and installing Tor For the majority of users, it makes sense to download the Tor Browser Bundle. This Bundle contains a customised version of Firefox that’s preconfigured with the settings and extensions you’ll need to connect to the Tor network. Head over to the and download the latest version of this bundle.

While you could go ahead and simply install the Tor browser from this file, it’s recommended that you check the installer hasn’t been tampered with in any way. After all, it doesn’t matter how carefully the Tor network encrypts your traffic if you’re using a version of the Tor browser that’s been modified to reveal your information. To verify that you’ve downloaded a legitimate Tor installer, you’ll need to download its accompanying.asc file, which contains the installer’s GPS signature. Download this file by Control-clicking the ‘sig’ link beneath the ‘Download’ button (where the cursor is positioned in the following screenshot) and selecting ‘Save link as.’ You’ll also need the, so download and install this now.

Next, launch your Mac’s Terminal by navigating to Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Type the following into the Terminal window, and then press the ‘Enter’ key on your keyboard: gpg –keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net –recv-keys 0x4E2C6E The Tor team sign their releases with the 0x4E2C6E key – just in case you were wondering where the numbers in the previous command came from.