The Tor network is an intriguing concept: build a bunch of servers around the Internet to route traffic through so that your connections can’t be traced. Why would you want to do that? Well, for several reasons, like you don’t want your web activity being traced by marketing people or spammers so they can come back and get you later. The really cool thing about Tor is that it’s not a hosted service; it’s a free toolset so that people can set up their own to help support the project and share their bandwidth.

At UNIX Review.

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