Tor Project - Anonymous Browsing Software

Post by **Winston** » April 24th, 2012, 9:12 pm

Check this out:

https://www.torproject.org/

What is Tor?
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

Why Anonymity Matters
Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

Contrarian Expatriate · April 25th, 2012, 4:59 am

I use TOR overseas or when browsing sensitive sites.

The best way to use it is by using an IronKey flash drive with a TOR-enabled Firefox browser inside. It is called Secure Sessions on the browser.

Taco · Post by **Taco** » April 25th, 2012, 7:26 am

My only concern is that some spy agency maybe the ones that developed this software. Who knows?

ReGen · Post by **ReGen** » April 29th, 2012, 10:24 am

This privacy test detects the fact of using Tor somehow. It means that any website can simply block Tor visitors.

MrPeabody · Post by **MrPeabody** » April 29th, 2012, 11:45 am

Taco wrote:My only concern is that some spy agency maybe the ones that developed this software. Who knows?

It's called a back door. Police and federal agencies use TOR also. The best way to preserve your privacy is not to use the Internet.

Post by **Winston** » April 29th, 2012, 12:04 pm

Well think about it. Why would a free software program be offered to the public? Why would a bunch of software developers create something for nothing? Isn't that strange?

Come to think of it, this forum, phpBB, is also free open source software as well. Does that mean that this program could have some kind of backdoor as well?

After all, why would a bunch of programmers/software developers create a program without getting paid or getting any benefit? What about OpenOffice.org?

momopi · Post by **momopi** » April 29th, 2012, 4:10 pm

Winston wrote:Well think about it. Why would a free software program be offered to the public? Why would a bunch of software developers create something for nothing? Isn't that strange?
Come to think of it, this forum, phpBB, is also free open source software as well. Does that mean that this program could have some kind of backdoor as well?
After all, why would a bunch of programmers/software developers create a program without getting paid or getting any benefit? What about OpenOffice.org?

Go ask the developers directly:
http://www.phpbb.com/get-involved/?sid= ... 3c6e5d39b1
http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/