Tor is an acronym that stands for The Onion Router. While the name suggests it is a router, it is actually a browser. Tor is the browser that stands for anonymity and privacy on the Internet. This review of Tor talks about how Tor works and how it provides anonymity when you are browsing the Internet.

While Internet Explorer and Google Chrome offer the feature where you can browse anonymously (InPrivate and InCognito modes), they still lag behind when intermediaries sitting between source and destination of web traffic. When you browse the web, send an email or download audio/video or anything, data is sent inform of packets.

Each data packet has a header that tells about the source and destination of the data packet. Even if you are using an encrypted connection, the packet headers are vulnerable. Anyone sitting between the source and destination can read the packet header to know about you and your browsing habits. The people snooping include your ISPs, ad agencies and sometimes even the government agencies. As such, your browsing and what you see on the Internet is affected by the information others have gathered about you.

Tor has been developed with total concentration on the privacy of users. People use Tor to send confidential emails. The high level security of Tor makes it impossible for hackers to know the origination ofemails and thereby the location of sender. Following are some uses of Tor that make it clear as to who all need the safest browser available on the planet:

There are many uses of Tor especially in a world where user privacy has been under the prying eyes of different ad agencies, social networks and government agencies. Also, your ISPs intercept your connection requests before you actually connect to a website. Using Tor, you wont leave any data for such agencies.

Tor works on a network of relays formed by people who have volunteered for the project. Unlike other browsers that have fixed routers that receive data packets to forward them to their destinations, Tor browser uses a number of relays. To be clearer, here is the procedure:

The below figure shows how Tor works

The aim is clear to create a maze of relays so that all the information about the original source is lost in the network. This makes it impossible for the scripts on the destination website to track who sent the request/data and from where.

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