Tor for Windows 0.2.1.20

3.7 out of 5 stars 3.7 (510 votes)

(November 17, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 59,320 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
    anomoly

    Reviewing 0.2.1.17 RC (Jul 10, 2009)

    Works great as an update to the tor browser.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 0.2.1.15 RC (May 27, 2009)

    As an interesting alternative to tor, try advtor.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/advtor/
    I am using it with privoxy (only) via vidalia installer. With a tray ap like proxy switcher, it works quite well.

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    Mumoto

    Reviewing 0.2.1.14 RC (Apr 19, 2009)

    The idea of this program is nice but what if any of the nodes confiscate the data raw on his computer and decodes it later you simply don't have any idea what people are doing with the data you're relaying with TOR.

    Tor:
    You -> Router(node1) -> Router(node2) -> Router(node3) -> Destination
    even if Node 1 & 2 get only "encrypted" data, number 3 will have to decode it before sending it to the destination because else the connection will not be made.

    Proxy
    You -> Proxy -> Destination

    Actually the same idea but without all the nodes in between.

    http://it.toolbox.com/bl...nt-mean-encrypted-18965

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 0.2.1.11 Alpha (Feb 25, 2009)

    It is more about obfuscating your own ip address. It is not intended to create a "I can do anything & everything I want over the internet session and no one will know my ip" solution. Only idiots like poster below would assume that and then bash the prog.
    For secure "communication" as in person to person, encryption (sha1-minimum) is required on both ends. OBVIOUSLY every single bit a pc sends or receives over the net CAN NOT be encrypted. DUHH
    I see no problem with this software but only with those who do not understand computers and their relationship to the internet itself.
    Personally? I leave it running just for IE's default settings for the simple fact that many processes will use those settings without you even knowing they are doing so to begin with. This works ONLY with http & https I believe.
    In effect the soft is not about protecting your lack of intelligence in using a pc over the net, but more about obfuscating specific protocol ip address sources.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    Bart Welson

    Reviewing 0.2.1.8 Alpha (Dec 10, 2008)

    This thing is just as anonymous as putting your computer on a city center and let everyone peek into it...

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