Similarly, I know many people who use Tor to be able to access those same websites through heavily restricted corporate network firewalls. For example, I have a friend who lives across the ocean in a large country with famously restrictive internet access, and many there have to use TOR or general proxy services to access fairly boring web sites the rest of us can get to without incident, like Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail. For the vast majority of people, there probably isn’t a point, but Tor is very popular in certain regions of the world where internet access is restricted, monitored, or heavily filtered. We’re going to focus on using Tor in Mac OS X, but there are Tor clients available for every significant OS, including Windows, Android, and Linux (there is currently no official iOS client).īefore beginning you might be wondering what the point of using TOR is. Though that may sound complicated, using Tor is actually quite simple.
The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
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