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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 1.0 (2.2.35-3):
- Update Firefox to 9.0.1
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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678 reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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Banndunn reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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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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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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https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en
"Vidalia is a cross-platform graphical controller for the Tor software, built using the Qt framework...Vidalia lets you start and stop Tor, see how much bandwidth you are consuming, see how many circuits you currently have active, see where these circuits are connected on a global map, view messages from Tor about its progress and current state, and let you configure your Tor client, bridge, or relay with a simple interface...Vidalia does not work alone, it requires Tor to be useful."
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Cowicide reviewed on 21 Jan 2011
Seem like a really bad idea to not have an auto-update or at least an option to be informed of critical updates for an app where if it fails it can get you imprisoned and/or killed in some situations.
Needs this now before they get someone killed.
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[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/google-funds-auto-update-vidalia
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Monkeyjunkey rated on 26 Dec 2011