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The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor's hidden services let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses.
Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they're in a foreign country, without notifying everybody nearby that they're working with that organization.
Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles
It looks like Russia's effort to crack Tor was harder than they anticipated. The company that won the contract is now trying to get out of it. Bloomberg reports: "The Kremlin was willing to pay 3.9 million rubles ($59,000) to anyone able to crack Tor, a popular tool for communicating anonymously over the Internet. Now the company that won the government contract expects to spend more than twice that amount to abandon the project. The Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics, and Control Systems—a Moscow arm of Rostec, a state-run maker of helicopters, weapons, and other military and industrial equipment—agreed to pay 10 million rubles ($150,000) to hire a law firm tasked with negotiating a way out of the deal, according to a database of state-purchase disclosures. Lawyers from Pleshakov, Ushkalov and Partners will work with Russian officials on putting an end to the Tor research project, along with several classified contracts, the government documents say."
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good info. does it really work?
Posts: 12143 | From: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable | Registered: Jun 2007
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Yes, it works very well and one of the best available. Best yet, it's free. It uses the Firefox browser.
Career instigators like Lionese hate this software because it not only hides your IP but also your location. Nazis like Tukular hate it because you can't ban a TOR user.
Check out the website's "about Tor" section to see how it works.
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If one ever cracks Tor, and the name becomes publicly known. That person most likely will die soon afterwards.
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TOR works great when used with VoIP to make secure phone calls. It can also be used this way to conduct multi-line conference calls.
TOR always uses the latest version of Firefox and the most current version has built in VoIP for Instant messaging, chat and phone calling.
I tried it on a cell phone running linux (not android) and it works great without incurring network delays.
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-------------------- Without data you are just another person with an opinion - Deming Posts: 12143 | From: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable | Registered: Jun 2007
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GCHQ is likely still sucking as much Internet traffic metadata as it can into its "Black Hole" database—part of a program called Karma Police—to profile Internet users.
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