Tor: Protect Your Privacy When You're Surfing
Preserving your privacy on the net is no easy task nowadays with so many security risks and potential prowlers out there. Tor is a toolset that's designed for anyone who wants to improve their safety and security on the Internet. It can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. For business users, it means that confidential exchanges of information can be kept from prying eyes and for more general users, it means that ISPs, keyloggers, and other types of malware can't track your activities easily.
Tor works by bouncing traffic around a distributed network of servers which it calls "onion routers" (hence the logo). The Tor interface allows you to easily toggle it on and off based on when you need to go online anonymously - there's no need to restart your computer when you've done so. If you want, you can also choose from various proxy tunnels based on a world map which displays exactly where each one is located.
Tor is a simple, well-organized, and effective tool for anyone worried about security or invasions of privacy online.
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