Nick Mathewson commited on 2007-10-23 03:20:10
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<h2>Tor: anonymity online</h2> |
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-Tor aims to defend against <a href="<page overview>">traffic analysis</a>, |
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-a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and |
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-privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state |
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-security. |
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+<p>Tor is a software project that helps you defend against <a |
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+href="<page overview>">traffic analysis</a>, a form of network |
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+surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential |
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+business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor |
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+protects you by encrypting your communications and bouncing them |
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+around a distributed network of servers. Tor works with many of your |
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+existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging |
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+clients, remote login, and other applications based on the Internet's |
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+TCP protocol. |
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</p> |
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-<p> |
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-Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a <a |
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+<p> Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a <a |
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href="<page whousestor>">wide variety of reasons</a>: journalists and |
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-bloggers, human rights workers, |
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-law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive |
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-regimes, and just ordinary citizens. We have a full page devoted |
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-to explaining exactly <a href="<page overview>">what Tor does, why this |
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-diversity of users is important, and how Tor works</a>. |
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+bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, |
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+corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary |
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+citizens. See the <a href="<page overview>">overview page</a> for a |
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+more detailed explanation of what Tor does, why this diversity of |
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+users is important, and how Tor works</a>. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-There are three pieces of fine print you need to know about. |
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+(There are three pieces of fine print you need to know about. |
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First, Tor does not protect you if you do not use it correctly. |
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Read <a href="<page download>#Warnings">our list of warnings</a> and |
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make sure to follow the |
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potential attacks that could compromise Tor's ability to protect you</a>. |
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Third, no anonymity system is perfect these days, and Tor is no exception: |
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you should not rely solely on the current Tor network if you really need |
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-strong anonymity. |
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+strong anonymity.) |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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Tor works by bouncing your traffic around a set of relays run by |
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volunteers all around the world. Tor's security improves as its user |
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base grows and as more people volunteer to |
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-<a href="<page docs/tor-doc-relay>">run a relay</a>. It isn't |
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+<a href="<page docs/tor-doc-relay>">run relays</a>. (It isn't |
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nearly as hard to set up as you might think, and can significantly |
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<a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerAnonymity"> |
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-enhance your own security against some attacks</a>. |
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+enhance your own security against some attacks</a>.) |
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If running a relay isn't for you, we need |
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<a href="<page volunteer>">help with many other aspects of the project</a>, |
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and we need funds to <a |
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