Tor for Windows 0.2.1.1 Alpha  alpha

Publisher's Description:

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.

Tor has the following other editions available: Tor for Mac OS X and Tor for Unix.

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	anomoly	Jun 17, 2008
Version:	0.2.1.1 Alpha
http://www.torproject.org/download.html.en
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Reviewer:	DJHasis	Jun 17, 2008
Version:	0.2.1.1 Alpha
Good software, improved alot in few years. Sad that somehow compiling Tor doesn't work with msys properly. Also weird that homepage-link hasn't changed even though admin's of Tor's sites changed them couple of months ago.
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Reviewer:	anomoly	May 24, 2008
Version:	0.2.0.26 RC
It has been made portable. http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator You have to config opera's proxy settings manually. Installing the latest opera beta locally & then simply overwriting the portable version works. I would suggest compressing tor with alpx & the latest upx exe.
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Reviewer:	rhensley	May 15, 2008
Version:	0.2.0.26 RC
Excellent concept and implementation. I hope this project survives forever.
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Reviewer:	ghammer	Mar 19, 2008
Version:	0.2.0.22 RC
Depends on what you mean 'security'. If you mean, no malware, bzzz! Wrong. If you mean those who watch won't know what you are doing on the web, won't be able to view what you do, bingo! Be a right handy thing if it could be made portable. Lot of 'net cafe users in China. A few tourists found out last week that the police know who, what, and where as they tried to post pics from Tibet.
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