The Onion Router (TOR) - What is it?

Prologue

Depicted as an illegal use of the Internets power by YouTuber’s  spreading false information to popular movie references, the TOR network isn’t (in a majority of the cases) used for abuse or malicious intent. Acting as layers of encryption for its users, the TOR network obtains its strength in numbers. TOR – an acronym for The Onion Router-  uses its capability of masking the request through three layers of encryption (hence the name onion).

Created during the 1990s by the U.S Naval Research Lab (NHL) with the intention of making as much privacy as possible, hiding location and request to internet and if someone was monitoring the network. By the early 2000s it became prevalent that they had successfully achieved this. However the U.S Navy soon stopped funding the research due it becoming more easier to then track the locations (since it was funded and made in the U.S). Nonetheless this would not be the end.

Privacy Unannounced and Greater Then Before

With the technological word evolving faster then a geological landslide, people now (more then ever) need to become vigilant as to where their privacy and information are going to. The Onion Router project created one of the most nefarious but yet virtuous browser identified as a modified Mozilla Firefox browser, which has already implanted extensions which ultimately empowers it further, using NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere, TorButton, TorLauncher and the TorProxy. Another benefit of this browser is that it can be utilised with removable media (like USBs) and different operating systems such as Windows and Unix-like operating systems (Mac, linux and Android).  

^ Tor browser as shown on the operating system of Ubuntu with its start page.

Why should I care about TOR?

Privacy is becoming more harder to obtain, essentially it’s the new currency for corporations. I don’t intend to scare monger you in anyway however, corporations such as the remarkable Facebook does collect data on you, it’s not a person looking at your actions online (unless your a wanted criminal then good luck!) but actually AI (Artificial Intelligence) with the ability to use machine learning to always adapt to your ‘needs’ with mainly targeted advertising across social media platforms. You may of heard the saying “I have noting to hide”, well that’s simply not the point. Everyone needs to have privacy (we can not advocate it enough!), we take a basic but yet easy model to explain the this further. Lets assume that you have a serious but embarrassing medical condition which you want to learn more on. You could use Google, though this wont steer you clear of every advertiser to know about your bodily functions. Through the power of TOR, you can circumvent this dilemma  and prevent most third party trackers that governments and corporations can use to track your browsing habits. In addition TOR carefully navigates around firewalls or censorship filters which was in placed by your school, office or government. 

"Criminals use TOR so I wont!"

This point is completely irrelevant, irrational and quite honestly stupid. To rebuttal this in any instance, criminals also drink water, breathe, eat, travel and ect. Nonetheless criminals do use this software, however this does not denounce this. TOR is not fool proof at all, criminals will always get caught by law enforcement or ethical white hat hackers. An example of this was when a Harvard student used the TOR network to send an email to the admin staff announcing a bomb threat, simply to get out of a test. When an investigation sparked, it was nothing more elaborate then checking Harvard’s internet and behold there was a suspicious connection to the TOR network at the time and relevance to the email sent to the staff. How did this happen? Well while TOR does hide your search and requests online, the network you are on can see that someone is connected to the TOR network. 

How do I use the TOR Browser?

To use the TOR browser is differently a step into the right direction as mentioned above. To download the TOR browser head over to https://www.torproject.org/ from this point go and download it from their page. Once installed, here are some key points to keep in mind:

  • Do not add on any other plugins.
  • Don’t change any of the settings unless its the security, in that case only change it to maximum.
  •  Don’t change the aspect ratio of the window, keep it as the same for when it loads up. 

That’s all to it basically, I won’t dive into to much about installation or adaptors to it because it is basic and you’ll find a tutorial on their website or with other reliable sources such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29.  

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