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The Tor Project
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people who 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 more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy.
Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced
Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced
What's New
Version 2.2.35-11 (reports as 1.0 in Finder): Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- 64-bit processor
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Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people who 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 more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy.
Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves.Tor's security is improved as its user base grows and as more people volunteer to run servers. Please consider volunteering your time or volunteering your bandwidth. And remember that this is development code - it's not a good idea to rely on the current Tor network if you really need strong anonymity.
By default, Tor is configured to run at startup. If you do not want Tor to run on startup, you can disable this by selecting "Customize" in the Installer, and then un-checking the "Tor Startup Script" box. Be sure to leave the other boxes checked. Once the installer is finished and your computer restarts, Tor will start automatically. Tor comes configured as a client by default. It uses a built-in default configuration file in /Library/Tor/torrc, but most people won't need to change any of the settings.
Privoxy is installed as part of the Tor bundle package installer. Privoxy is a filtering web proxy that integrates well with Tor. Once it's installed, it will start automatically when your computer is restarted. You do not need to configure Privoxy to use Tor. A custom Privoxy configuration for Tor has been installed as part of the installer package.
Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves.Tor's security is improved as its user base grows and as more people volunteer to run servers. Please consider volunteering your time or volunteering your bandwidth. And remember that this is development code - it's not a good idea to rely on the current Tor network if you really need strong anonymity.
By default, Tor is configured to run at startup. If you do not want Tor to run on startup, you can disable this by selecting "Customize" in the Installer, and then un-checking the "Tor Startup Script" box. Be sure to leave the other boxes checked. Once the installer is finished and your computer restarts, Tor will start automatically. Tor comes configured as a client by default. It uses a built-in default configuration file in /Library/Tor/torrc, but most people won't need to change any of the settings.
Privoxy is installed as part of the Tor bundle package installer. Privoxy is a filtering web proxy that integrates well with Tor. Once it's installed, it will start automatically when your computer is restarted. You do not need to configure Privoxy to use Tor. A custom Privoxy configuration for Tor has been installed as part of the installer package.
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Derekcurrie reviewed on 05 May 2012
No wonder people get confused about the Tor Project when even the download sites can't get the version numbers right! If you really want to start understanding the Tor Project, visit the Tor Project:
https://www.TorProject.org/
The Tor Project writes two main pieces of software:
1) TorBrowser, as linked above.
2) Vidalia, which is NOT linked above. Here is the link:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html
Tor technology takes time to learn. Start with the TorBrowser then dive into Vidalia when, or if you are ready.
Tor is helpful for maintaining our US Constitutional right to PRIVACY. Thanks to the fascist Corporate Oligarchy corruption of our US government, our constitutional right to privacy as citizens on US soil is being destroyed. Fight back with the Tor Project and other privacy maintenance software. Tell the Corporate Oligarchy and their political puppets to get out of the USA and die in some forsaken hole of their own digging and devising. They are not welcome here.
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2. Vidalia is now included in the Tor Browser Bundle, and is no longer available as a separate binary download.
3. The reason MacUpdate lists the version as 1.0 in the title is because their MacUpdate Desktop software identifies updates via the "get info" string and matches it to what is stored in their database backend. It's the responsibility of each developer to make sure that string reflects an accurate version number, if they want third-party sites to list it properly.
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Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314" on this server.
I'm no geek. Just launched Tor, & through it came.
I love this thing. :)
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678 reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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Banndunn reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
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Stephen_Fry reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
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http://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en
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VIDALIA:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html
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Virgeist reviewed on 28 Feb 2011
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In fact, the masterminds at Google aren't the main threat anyway : the sheer amount of data they have to wade through means that the worst that they will do to you is tailor ads to your personal tastes. If everybody is watched at the same time, no one is watched closely.
The real danger comes from Javascript and other imperfect characteristics of the internet which leave you vulnerable to dedicated spies.
If you are are paranoid, then yes by all means use the TorButton with Firefox instead, but I'm confident that the solution that I've outlined in my first post will help all but a tiny fraction of users achieve a sufficient amount of privacy.
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Pierre.sohl rated on 18 May 2012
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Monkeyjunkey rated on 26 Dec 2011