The Silk Road and NSA spying may be old news, but The Onion Router (Tor) continues to generate interest among Internet users seeking online anonymity. Tor isn’t all upside, though. As I found out, you ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Tor is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication by directing Internet traffic through a ...

In Trump’s America, more and more people are turning to tools that allow them to use the internet privately. Here’s what happened when contributor Jen Rajchel tried Tor for the first time. Tor, short ...

The Tor Project is working with researchers to harden the anonymising Tor network and prevent law enforcement or cyberattackers from being able to snoop on users. The Tor network, also known as the ...

With a simple USB drive and Tails, you can turn any PC into a secure, Tor-encrypted workstation in seconds.

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 ...

The Tor Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered anonymity tool. The ...

The Internet is not a secure place for exchanging information. There are many prying eyes on you trying to get a piece of your secret information. In this era of free-flowing data, most of us use the ...

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 ...

The news over the past few years has been spattered with cases of Internet anonymity being stripped away, despite (or because) of the use of privacy tools. Tor, the anonymizing “darknet” service, has ...