TOR

If you live in America, you take for granted your right to print your opinions and spread your ideas to others; in other parts of the world, this basic right is not a given. China has censored Google results and thus proved that 'freedom of the press' is not free world wide. How is a person supposed to overcome the 'big brother' in their neighborhood? I have discovered one tool that is pretty nifty. The program is called "http://www.torproject.org", for 'The Onion Router.' This download-able program takes one's web traffic and sends it through other computers on the network. This layering of the transmission prevents an outside party from following the path from start to finish. The spy would still be able to tell if you were connecting to the Internet, but they would not be able to follow what the initiator is doing online. For example, if I am person 'a' and I am trying to reach source 'x,' my signal goes through person 'b,c, and d' and then reaches x. The spy would would only see that I went online, but not that I retrieved source x as the signal was routed through other computers. To track someone online, the spy needs to see both ends of the transmission; with Tor, intermediate users help provide online anonymity by layering the users activity. For more details, and to download this tool, visit "http://www.torproject.org"