Tor for Windows 2.3.25-6

3.6 out of 5 stars 3.6 (671 votes)

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Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP / Freeware / 82,823 downloads

Tor is a toolset for organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize Web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    roj

    Reviewing 2.3.25-6 (Apr 5, 2013)

    Music4Ever:

    Columbian drug lords use phone lines and iPads to conduct business but no one wants to ban those technologies. Just putting it into perspective. We live in an age where privacy is a fleeting commodity and political correctness is the new racism.

    TOR helps balance the scales.

    But then again, I'm sure you already knew this given your response showing both sides.

    Cheers.

    FIVE stars.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Aegis69

    Reviewing 2.3.25-6 (Apr 5, 2013)

    Tor is a response to government intrusion into our privacy, plain and simple. And no matter what they do, we are always ahead of them in terms of technology, and we always will be. The people who work for government are completely retarded, go get your drivers licence renewed and you'll see what I mean.

    They are pushing us to make an entirely anonymous web, all they have to do it stop pushing and we'd probably stop making it. But since they are too retarded to stop, we have no choice but to continue.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    Music4Ever

    Reviewing 2.3.25-2 (Jan 7, 2013)

    A recent news report on BBC which I can't find showed TOR is being used by the depraved among us to access child abuse etc. Though these are in the minority those hosting TOR need to be aware of at least in the UK indecent material just passing though their servers can implicate them despite being innocent themselves & resulted in this case of PC gear being seized.

    The flip side is recently I visited a large Caribbean island where internet restrictions are draconian & totally suppresses residents being able to access information that may be deemed to be against the state (basic freedom of information) & for these people who can actually own PC’s proxy servers are a lifeline to factual information although the restrictions I saw are so tight the likes of TOR are no longer that helpful.

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    DKDude

    Reviewing 2.2.39-3 (Oct 18, 2012)

    I've dedicated one of my servers for TOR (with a modified Tor server), now I can log the activity, and take a closer look.

    I'm not the only one, who run a "Snoop-Server" on tor, so paranoid people, you better strap on your tinfoilbeanie.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Mirage_Etoile

    Reviewing 2.2.39-1 (Oct 8, 2012)

    Great software , and a thanks to its authors .
    I see that the comment spammers target purposely programs used to keep strong the privacy of users on the net .
    It is not a coincidence obviously .

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