Pealing the Onion with TOR.
We are going to continue off from the last post about VPNs and talk about the TOR browser and network.
Wait, what is TOR?
TOR stands for The Onion Router, and it is a software/browser that enables you to browse the web anonymously. The onion part of the name comes from the layers of protection that the browser uses to hide your internet browsing session.
Like I mentioned before, engineers like their puns.
How does it work?
Tor, similar to a VPN, bounces your connection through a global volunteer overlay network to conceal your location. A large company that may sell your data does not own this network; anyone can own one of these networks, even you.
This is how it can hide your internet activity by going through a number of these networks.
This sounds too good to be true, what is the catch?
One thing that you will sacrifice is your speed since your data will be moving through multiple networks around the world.
TOR is another way to access different content for a website like Netflix. The only issue is that you don't have control over your location. You will have to refresh your connection to get the right place. From my experience, it is more reliable to get around the access restrictions of sites like Netflix.
How do I get started with TOR?
First, download the TOR browser: https://www.torproject.org/download/
Install the TOR browser and run it
Click the shield icon, and you can use this to set the level of security you want. The highest level will break some sites and cause them not to work.
The wand icon is where you can adjust your location. You can click it to keep refreshing till
Think of TOR as another browser you can use. Firefox helped develop this browser and have incorporated some of the technology in the Firefox browser.
And the Deepweb/Darkweb?
You can access the Deep/Dark web with the TOR browser and a specialized search engine. Instead of .com or .net domain, the Dark web sites use the unique .onion domain.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT TO TRY TO ACCESS THE DEEP WEB, AS YOU WILL PUT YOUR COMPUTER AT RISK!!!
The Dark/Deep Web, in a nutshell, is indexed websites that are either old or have almost not traffic sent to it. So these sites are then ignored by most modern search engines. From experience, there isn't anything on the dark web that you can't find on the normal (also called Clear web), or they are old Geosites webpages.
You can host a web site on the Darkweb, but hackers will continuously attack you there.
That is it about TOR, next, we will go over what a PI HOLE is and how it block ads!