There has been an avalanche of recent revelations about the NSA spying on virtually all online activity. One possible method to prevent monitoring and obscure your presence online is to use Tor–The ...

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Curious about online anonymity, I ditched my usual browser and spent a week exclusively using the Tor Browser. While its privacy protections are impressive, I didn't expect how much it would change my ...

A while back, we covered the controversy over a few Kickstarter projects aiming to provide something in increasing demand as of late: a foolproof way to connect any Wi-Fi capable device to the Tor ...

Privacy tools can sometimes create strange bedfellows. That's what has happened with an anonymizer system that was originally developed and funded by the U.S. Naval ...

If you're looking to protect your privacy online with Tor Browser, you've come to the right place. One of most well-protected browsers available, this free piece of software allows you to communicate ...

Last week, the Iranian government apparently started a new censorship program that blocks encrypted Internet traffic. Even Iranians who had taken steps to evade government firewalls were being stymied ...

The common misconception about VPNs is that they can render users truly anonymous online and the same goes for using Tor, an onion router that scatters the users' data online. The truth is, however, ...

Tor has been the go-to for anonymous communication online for years now — and that has made it one of the juiciest targets possible to the likes of the NSA and FBI. A new anonymizing protocol from MIT ...

EFF recently kicked off its second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. The campaign—which ...