If you seek utmost privacy when surfing the web, the Tor browser is your best bet. This free, open-source browser routes your traffic through multiple volunteer-run servers, scrambling your data and ...

You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it. Maybe between the nodes, traffic rerouting, and special onion URLs it seems too ...

Platforms hope by combining, their reach can be expanded, and that the merger ‘will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship’. CISOs of ...

The Tor browser is a popular tool used by many people around the world to surf the internet anonymously and securely. It is mostly used by journalists, activists, and privacy-conscious people.

The Tor Project has published Chrome and Firefox extensions over the summer to help users in censored countries connect to the Tor network. The extensions are not meant to be installed by users living ...

“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 ...

A stable Tor Browser 6.0 has been released; it disabled SHA-1 support, got rid of the Mac Gatekeeper problem, and switched its default search results to DuckDuckGo. Tor Browser 6.0 is out. If you have ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...