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Excuse my ignorance. Is it something physical that you install? Is it like a filter? Is it like an operating system? Is it a website that you pass through?
"Its software package – the Tor browser bundle – can be downloaded and used to take advantage of that technology, with a separate version available for Android smartphones. "
03-30-2014, 09:56 AM
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They have a pretty decent overview on their web site:
Basically, put a bunch of nodes between you and your destination so you can't be tracked. The nodes you go through change every few minutes to help prevent tracking.
Tor is a router that connects you to a network that allows you to proxy to other networks with a certain level of anonymity. You can use Tor to host websites and other services while remaining fairly anonymous.
It also hosts about 1% of the deepweb... but the content is so low in quality that it's not even worth it. Find your deepweb elsewhere.
At one point, it was the primary method to access wikileaks... but it looks like they got wise and just put it on a bigger deepweb network.
It isnt completely untraceable, you'd have to use a private proxy for that.
If you dont know what Tor is for, you dont need Tor, in a nutshell.
Unless you want to view YouTube and Twitter in a country that bans it.
I agree with ya 100%:
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If you don't know what Tor is for, you don't need Tor, in a nutshell.
Another thing we can say:
It's frigging slow
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