The Silk Road and NSA spying may be old news, but The Onion Router (Tor) continues to generate interest among Internet users seeking online anonymity. Tor isn’t all upside, though. As I found out, you ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a ...

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“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about Tor, the onion router web browser that allows users to access the Dark Web and other encrypted websites. When privacy is outlawed, ...

The news over the past few years has been spattered with cases of Internet anonymity being stripped away, despite (or because) of the use of privacy tools. Tor, the anonymizing “darknet” service, has ...

Twitter just struck a blow against government censorship, even if the tech giant won't come out and say so directly. Tor works by sending users' internet traffic through random servers, and encrypting ...

Tor is a good security tool, but it's not very user-friendly. PORTAL seeks to make Tor easy -- and almost foolproof -- to use by building it into a travel router. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...