![]() But as these servers become more well-known to ISP’s around the world, it becomes easier to block them. Tor Internet traffic first gets re-routed through several public Tor servers, each one not knowing where the next server will be. It is modified from the Mozilla Firefox browser, and it acts like a virtual private network. The main platform of Tor is its browser, which is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux (there are also Android and iOS equivalents which we will look at later). But on the whole, it is still considered extremely secure. Tor HAS been breached once by the FBI to bust a child porn network. It can conceal your location and cloak your browsing habits. Most of all, it is increasingly being used by ordinary Internet users like you and me to make sure we are not being tracked and traced online.It is used in totalitarian countries and regions such as China, Russia, and the Middle East to enable its citizens to criticize their government and other authorities such as the police, the military, and the courts.It is used by activists and campaigners.It is used by journalists to protect their sources and to protect themselves from government interference.But there are MANY legitimate uses for Tor too, which many people overlook. Tor is used by many different groups of people, but it unfairly gets a bad rap because most people associate Tor with its criminal associations – the Dark Web, Silk Road, drug dealers, assassins for hire, and the like. ![]() It is now under relentless attack from agencies such as the US’s National Security Agency, and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in a bid to crack it. Its original aim was to protect internet users’ privacy from corporations, which is ironic considering that today the purpose of Tor has done a total 180 degrees and is now used to protect people from the government, the very entity that funded Tor in the first place! Needless to say, the US Government is now not a fan of Tor, as it has taken on a life of its own, and law enforcement find themselves frustrated by encrypted criminal activity. It therefore got a lot of its funding from the US Government, but it eventually had other financial backers such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tor was launched in 2002 and was originally developed by the US Navy. ![]()
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