“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

Dark market drug kingpins have been a little peeved over the last week. Over recent days, coinciding with, though not ostensibly related to, an alleged Chinese attack on code repository Github, the ...

A group of privacy advocates and open-source leaders has signed an open letter urging Google to reverse its plans for mandatory developer verification, arguing the changes pose a physical threat to ...

The US government spent decades funding the development of tools like Tor, which helps millions of people route around ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). The Tor Project has ...

You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it. Maybe between the nodes, traffic rerouting, and special onion URLs it seems too ...

Tor and VPNs both beef up your privacy through different methods. Learn how they work and which you should use. Moe enjoys making technical content digestible and fun. As a writer and editor for over ...

The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital ...

While the internet has dramatically expanded the ability to share knowledge, it has also made issues of privacy more complicated. Many people are justifiably worried about their personal information ...

A man in Ireland is arrested on child pornography charges, and a network of ostensibly anonymous and invisible websites goes down at the same time. It's no coincidence, and this latest chapter in the ...