RE: Your internet privacy is now for sale to the highest bidder in Trumpistan
March 29, 2017 at 1:23 pm
(March 29, 2017 at 1:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yo, Divi Tiberio.
What do you know about this?
https://www.torproject.org/
Quite a bit. You should use TOR if you are so concerned about your privacy that you don't even want a VPN provider to know where you are going.
TOR works by routing your traffic through three nodes, and using encryption at each of those nodes.
Node 1 knows your IP address, but not what site you are connecting to, or what data you want to send to it. It strips your IP address from your traffic and sends it to Node 2.
Node 2 knows nothing about you, neither your IP address, or the site you are connecting to, or the data you want to send to it. It merely forwards your traffic onto Node 3.
Node 3 is able to decrypt your actual traffic. It knows the site you want to connect to, and the data you want to send, but it does not know your IP address (i.e. who you are). It sends your traffic to the site you want to connect to.
When the site sends back a response, the process is reversed.
If you connect to a site over HTTPS when using TOR, then Node 3 only knows what site you want to connect to, and not what information you are sending (i.e. URL, login information).
However because TOR uses 3 nodes to relay your traffic, it is often quite slow.
