tech: Using The Onion Router network
The Onion Router is a great online network that allows you to browse anonymously. By sending your TCP/IP packets through an encrypted network, it ensures that the destination of those packets has no idea who the original sender was. It also makes it difficult to do traffic analysis on your outgoing connection to see what you’re up to - all in all, a great first step on the way to complete online anonymity, for those of you concerned about your privacy.
TOR isn’t perfect: in fact a quick Google for “TOR security vulnerability” brings up a few issues to be aware of. And you also need to understand how anonymity is different from privacy and security - check out the TOR FAQ for a greater understanding of this, as well as this great article by security guru Bruce Schneier, which explains the concepts well.
In the video I show off an easy way to get Firefox to use TOR, and there is a good guide to TORifying other programmes right here.
Hope you find the show interesting - see you next time.
-Wil













Call me suspicious, but I cannot bring myself to trust anything with “The Onion” in the name….