Roger Dingledine commited on 2016-03-11 22:05:54
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- The Tor software is a program you can run on your computer that |
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-helps keep |
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- you safe on the Internet. Tor protects you by bouncing your |
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-communications |
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+ Tor is a program you can run on your computer that helps keep |
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+ you safe on the Internet. It protects you by bouncing your communications |
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around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around |
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- the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection |
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-from |
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+ the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from |
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learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit |
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- from learning your physical location. This set of volunteer relays |
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-is |
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- called the Tor network. You can read more about how Tor works on the |
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-<a |
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- href="<page about/overview>">overview page</a>. |
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+ from learning your physical location. |
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+ This set of volunteer relays is called the <b>Tor network</b>. |
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+ The way most people use Tor is with <b>Tor Browser</b>, |
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+ which is a version of Firefox that fixes many privacy issues. |
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+ You can read more about how Tor works on the <a href="<page |
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+ about/overview>">overview page</a>. |
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- The Tor Project is a non-profit (charity) organization that |
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-maintains |
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- and develops the Tor software. |
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+ The <b>Tor Project</b> is a non-profit (charity) organization that |
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+ maintains and develops the Tor software. |
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server. |
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Simple proxy providers are fine solutions if you do not want protections |
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-your privacy and anonymity online and you trust the provider from doing |
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+your privacy and anonymity online and you trust the provider to not do |
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bad |
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things. Some simple proxy providers use SSL to secure your connection |
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-to them. |
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-This may protect you against local eavesdroppers, such as those at a |
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-cafe with |
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-free wifi Internet. |
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+to them, which protects you against local eavesdroppers, such as those at a |
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+cafe with free wifi Internet. |
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Simple proxy providers also create a single point of failure. The |
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provider |
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-knows who you are and where you browse on the Internet. They can see |
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+knows both who you are and what you browse on the Internet. They can see |
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your |
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traffic as it passes through their server. In some cases, they can even |
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see |
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inside your |
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encrypted traffic as they relay it to your banking site or to ecommerce |
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stores. |
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-You have to trust the provider isn't doing any number of things, such as |
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+You have to trust the provider isn't |
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watching your traffic, injecting their own advertisements into your |
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traffic |
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-stream, and recording your personal details. |
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+stream, or recording your personal details. |
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Tor passes your traffic through at least 3 different servers before |
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sending |
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it on to the destination. Because there's a separate layer of encryption |
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-each of the three relays, Tor does not modify, or even know, what you |
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-are |
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-sending into it. It merely relays your traffic, completely encrypted |
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-through |
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-the Tor network and has it pop out somewhere else in the world, |
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-completely |
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-intact. The Tor client is required because we assume you trust your |
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-local |
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-computer. The Tor client manages the encryption and the path chosen |
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-through |
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-the network. The relays located all over the world merely pass |
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-encrypted |
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-packets between themselves.</p> |
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+each of the three relays, somebody watching your Internet connection |
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+can't modify, or read, what you are |
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+sending into the Tor network. Your traffic is encrypted between the Tor |
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+client (on your computer) and where it pops out somewhere else in the |
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+world. |
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+</p> |
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<dt>Doesn't the first server see who I am?</dt><dd>Possibly. A bad |
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world, so |
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using Tor by itself is fine. You are still protected from this node |
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-out who you are and where you are going on the Internet.</dd> |
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+out both who you are and where you are going on the Internet.</dd> |
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<dt>Can't the third server see my traffic?</dt><dd>Possibly. A bad |
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third |
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of three servers can see the traffic you sent into Tor. It won't know |
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who sent |
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-this traffic. If you're using encryption, such as visiting a bank or |
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-e-commerce website, or encrypted mail connections, etc, it will only |
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-know the |
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-destination. It won't be able to see the data inside the traffic |
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-stream. You |
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-are still protected from this node figuring out who you are and if using |
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-encryption, what data you're sending to the destination.</dd> |
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+this traffic. If you're using encryption (like |
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+HTTPS), it will only know the destination. See <a |
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+href="https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https">this visualization of |
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+Tor and HTTPS</a> to understand how Tor and HTTPS interact. |
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+</dd> |
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