Comments on: On Censorship and Third-Party Data http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: CodeMonkeySteve http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/comment-page-1/#comment-32649 CodeMonkeySteve Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:29:20 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/#comment-32649 <p>Tor isn't a traditional web anonymizer, which simply disguises your address by running all requests through their proxy. The anonymizer still knows all about you, and your privacy is at their mercy. </p> <p> Tor, on the other hand, actually routes individual packets through other users' machines. No one machine sees all of your packets, and there's no (feasible) way of tracking any of the packets back to their source (or destination). </p> <p> Tor isn't the only anonymizing protocol out there (see also ANT), but it's probably the most popular.</p> Tor isn’t a traditional web anonymizer, which simply disguises your address by running all requests through their proxy. The anonymizer still knows all about you, and your privacy is at their mercy.

Tor, on the other hand, actually routes individual packets through other users’ machines. No one machine sees all of your packets, and there’s no (feasible) way of tracking any of the packets back to their source (or destination).

Tor isn’t the only anonymizing protocol out there (see also ANT), but it’s probably the most popular.

]]> By: CodeMonkeySteve http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/comment-page-1/#comment-52749 CodeMonkeySteve Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:29:20 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/#comment-52749 <p>Tor isn't a traditional web anonymizer, which simply disguises your address by running all requests through their proxy. The anonymizer still knows all about you, and your privacy is at their mercy.<br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br>Tor, on the other hand, actually routes individual packets through other users' machines. No one machine sees all of your packets, and there's no (feasible) way of tracking any of the packets back to their source (or destination).<br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br>Tor isn't the only anonymizing protocol out there (see also ANT), but it's probably the most popular.</p> Tor isn’t a traditional web anonymizer, which simply disguises your address by running all requests through their proxy. The anonymizer still knows all about you, and your privacy is at their mercy.



Tor, on the other hand, actually routes individual packets through other users’ machines. No one machine sees all of your packets, and there’s no (feasible) way of tracking any of the packets back to their source (or destination).



Tor isn’t the only anonymizing protocol out there (see also ANT), but it’s probably the most popular.

]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/comment-page-1/#comment-32648 eric Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:21:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/#comment-32648 <p>How well do web anonymisers work? I downloaded this software called Tor from EFF.org. I don't know how much security it really offers though.</p> How well do web anonymisers work? I downloaded this software called Tor from EFF.org. I don’t know how much security it really offers though.

]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/comment-page-1/#comment-52748 eric Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:21:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/02/on-censorship-and-third-party-data/#comment-52748 <p>How well do web anonymisers work? I downloaded this software called Tor from <a href="http://EFF.org">EFF.org</a>. I don't know how much security it really offers though.</p> How well do web anonymisers work? I downloaded this software called Tor from EFF.org. I don’t know how much security it really offers though.

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