How can I send an anonymous parcel to someone without revealing my identity and my address ? I don’t want the post office knowing that I’m the one who sent the parcel. Thankfully, we live in a world where there is always a solution. « There’s a genius in all of us » - Albert Einstein The good news is that because the Internet is marvelous, it is possible and (way) easier online 🌍. So, are we doomed to stay public on the internet ? At least in real life, we can always go to the middle of the Saharan desert 🐪 if we want to hide. We understand why our IP address cannot remain private. It works exactly the same on the Internet. How can the postal services deliver your mail ? They can’t. Otherwise, how would the routers know where to send the data packets ? We can compare this with our postal address : assume you lived in a secret location, in a secret town whose name and ZIP code is only known to you. The problem is that like your postal address, your IP address is not encrypted, and it cannot. It enables the postal services and the postman (In internet, it is the routers) to deliver your parcels 📦 (route the data packets) from the sender (the host) to the recipient (the destination).
This address works exactly like a postal address. In the current Internet, each host is identified by an IP Address which is unique - in reality it is a bit more complicated today. What’s the anonymity problem in the internet ?įirst, to understand why TOR can be useful, let’s see why we are not anonymous when browsing the internet. Unlike other web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave or Safari, TOR implements an additional module which allows it to exploit the principle of onion routing in order to make our communications anonymous. TOR is presented as a free and open-source web browser that you can download at. TOR is based on « onion routing », developed in the 1990s by 2 American researchers to anonymize communications of US intelligence. TOR is an acronym for «The Onion Routing project », original name of the software. But how does it work ? Is it useful ? What is TOR ? It would allow you to stay anonymous on the Internet.
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