-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just put a new article about how/why someone like you should use Tor. It's very basic, and not too technical. Here's an excerpt:
URL: http://mpassetprotection.com/content/view/18/2/ Quote Your personal browsing habbits, purchase history, and personal preferences- perhaps even your name and contact information are available on-line. In today's interconnected, data centric world, this is not a surprise. If it relates to you, it's possible that a piece of information is out there and available. But does it have to be this way? The short answer is... No! Enter the Tor Anonymous Proxy , sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This small, simple client/server program will become your buddy, and you'll want to use it when visiting controversial web sites, sending important e-mails, or chatting on-line. Let's see how it works... How Tor Works On the official web site, Tor is described as: "...a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves." Sounds good, right? Probably, but let me reiterate the above in plain English everyone can understand. In a nutshell, Tor is simply a large conglomeration of computers connected together via encrypted channels over the Internet. As a result, it is very difficult for a spy (government or private) to determine which computers are talking to which, and how. Is Computer #1 really connecting to that web forum, or is it simply doing so on behalf of any one of thousands of other machines in the network? There's no easy way to tell. And it gets better. The more people participate -either by starting a server or simply using the client mode- the more anonymous Tor gets! Pretty cool, huh? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGkbOWgwZR2XMkZmQRAkgWAJ9nHyMH8qnbTM3XGdoklylSg/gZ5ACfVTy4 dIEp4+m5d3CnvUurzQUn0hE= =XD9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
