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| | Tor was thought out to protect US intelligence online, and was originally made by a US [[Navy Seal]]. Development started in 1997 by DARPA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. However, in 2002 the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free license. | | Tor was thought out to protect US intelligence online, and was originally made by a US [[Navy Seal]]. Development started in 1997 by DARPA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. However, in 2002 the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free license. |
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| − | ==See also== | + | Even subsequent government studies have concluded that Tor is difficult to infiltrate, because the government would have to penetrate all three computers handling a particular message to be able to trace it back to its origin. Because the number of active Tor nodes is large, and the middle node is assigned at random, most of the node computers on a Tor network would have to be compromised for the privacy of the messages to be broken.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-01-23/tor-anonymity-software-vs-dot-the-national-security-agency|title=The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built|date=January 23, 2014 |work=Bloomburg Business|accessdate=February 29, 2016}}</ref> |
| − | * [[Essay:Why Patriot Conservatives should use the Tor anonymous browser bundle]]
| + | ==References== |
| − | * [[Anonymity]]
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| − | * [[Black Phone]]
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| − | * [[Silent Circle]]
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| − | * [[Encryption]]
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| − | * [[Cryptography]]
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| − | * [[Darknet]]
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| | ==External links== | | ==External links== |
| − | * [https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2014/01/29/amrd-introducing-the-tor-browser-bundle/ AmRD: Introducing the TOR browser bundle #torproject]
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| | * [https://www.torproject.org/ Official TorProject.org] | | * [https://www.torproject.org/ Official TorProject.org] |
| | * [http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-and-should-i-use-it-1527891029 What Is Tor and Should I Use It?] | | * [http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-and-should-i-use-it-1527891029 What Is Tor and Should I Use It?] |
| − | * [https://survivalblog.com/securing_your_data_and_online_communications_by_afs/ Securing Your Data and Online Communications, by A.F.S.] on [[The Survival Blog]]
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| − | * AnonWatch, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707145350/http://www.anonwatch.com/?p=3 Tor in Depth] Security Analysis of the Tor Network
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