It cannot encrypt the exit node from the Tor network to your destination, and if anyone is in a position to snoop your computer and any of your destinations it is possible for them to connect the dots and do some traffic analysis. Tor is about hiding your location, not encrypting your communications. Tor also supports the Thunderbird mail client, the Tor Cloud project creates anonymous bridges across Amazon EC2, and Orbot anonymizes Android users. This is a pre-configured Web browser all ready to anonymize your Web surfing. If you tried Tor in the past and struggled to configure it, it’s easier than ever to use, thanks to the Tor Browser Bundle. Each link in the chain only knows about the previous link and the next link, so your “footprints” are erased as you go. Tor creates private network pathways for you by building chains of encrypted TCP connections. Most Internet users don’t bother to encrypt their data, so it’s a feast for snoopers. Encrypting your data doesn’t protect you from traffic analysis, because packet headers must be unencrypted, and a whole lot of information is gleaned from packet headers. Tor aims to foil traffic analysis, which is widely used to track sites that you visit, your location, and your identity. Tor is a distributed, anonymous network of thousands of relays that obscure your pathways as you use the Internet. Naval Research Laboratory for protecting government communications. There are some tools we can use to try to protect ourselves, and one of them is Tor, the onion router. Though for some Internet users the consequences are drastic, such as whistleblowers and journalists who live in countries where they face arrest or worse. I daresay they would care if the consequences were as immediate as multitudes of strangers entering their homes and snooping into all of their stuff, but it’s abstract and the consequences are not as obvious as physical trespass.
Sure, there are always people who shrug and say “I have nothing to hide and I don’t care.” Fine for them, but not fine for Web users who do care about this. There is no oversight or accountability, and we have little say. Our privacy and rights to our own data mean nothing on the Internet as businesses and governments freely capture, mine, and sell as much personal information on Web users as they can possibly grab.
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