Last Updated on: 17th November 2023, 07:53 pm
Web site: www.torproject.org
Category: Network
Subcategory: Network Others
Platform: Android, Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows
License: BSD
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First release: September 20, 2002
TOR (The Onion Router) – a free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
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.
Tor is an effective censorship circumvention tool, allowing its users to reach otherwise blocked destinations or content. Tor can also be used as a building block for software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features.
Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local socks proxy interface provided by your Tor instance. If the application itself does not come with socks support, you can use a socks client such as torsocks.
TOR project offers the TOR Browser, a ready to use web browser based on Firefox with TOR application built-in.