Tor is a free software designed to enable anonymity online. It works just like an Internet Browser, but Tor instead directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network that consist of more that ‘four thousand relays’. This then conceals a user’s location and his usage from anyone conducting any type of network surveillance online. In simple words, you can do whatever you want in the Internet and nothing would ever trace back to you. Many people have used this ‘invisible ability’ for good and sometimes even for evil purposes. So back to the real question, does this free software, which works like an anonymous Internet browser, actually work?

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Tor

How it works

Tor does make it more difficult for anyone or anything to actually spy on you. This is possible because the original data, including it’s destination, is encrypted multiple times and is send through virtual circuits comprising successive randomly selected Tor relays. Because of so many relays decryption is then possible thus your identity is never revealed.

However, the NSA does target Tor and despite its anonymity, you still have that little chance of being caught if you participate in illegal activity. While you may have the power to hide and be anonymous, someone let’s say the U.S government, can still capture you if it tries hard enough. Fact is, no one can stay invisible forever.

For example, please look at the pic below..

This green camel above is the logo for a website called ‘Silk Road‘. This website was utilized to sell and distribute illegal psychical content via the internet. The website is said to only work and operate while using Tor. However, the NSA got so tired of not being able to capture the specific individuals who sold and purchased all of these illegal goods, because of Tor, that it instead found a way  to shut down the actual website’s link instead. Do have in mind that this is a very difficult task for even the U.S government due to the fact that the website’s actual online links and physical locations are very well hidden. Still, the good old NSA effectively found a way to successfully shut them down. Sadly, just four weeks after it’s shut down they came back up again. However, it’s only a matter of time till the NSA takes them down, again…

I personally like the Tor software because it protects many freedoms, such as, the right to have privacy while being online. To the good people I wish you the best, now for the bad people using Tor for evil activity’s, well have in mind that it’s only a matter of time till you get captured.

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