Learn how to… Stop all browser snooping with Tor
Windows Help & Advice|April 2020
Neil Mohr investigates the shadowy world of onion routing, and how it can be used to shrug off any surveillance of your online activities
Neil Mohr
Learn how to… Stop all browser snooping with Tor

They’re watching you. They’re watching everything you do online. You’d think we were being paranoid, but it’s part of their mission statement: the UK government is part of the international Five Eyes group of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States, which have worked together since the end of World War II to collate and share intelligence, and that includes the internet use of citizens.

In the digital age, that means intercepting, storing, and analysing all Internet traffic. Don’t be fooled into thinking that local laws can stop a nation state from spying on its own citizens. If you’re one of the Five Eyes, just get your buddy overseas to do the spying, then report back. Tempora, a UK programme, splices off the undersea fibreoptic backbone of the internet, duplicating all the data transmitted over it, with the NSA sharing that data. Damn crafty, we Brits.

Back in the US, programmes such as PRISM created a legal framework for the NSA to spy on targeted US citizens, immunising co-operating US companies from prosecution. Or take MUSCULAR for bulk copying of Google and Yahoo! data outside US territory, for the NSA and GCHQ to rifle through. And who knows what Russia, North Korea, and China are up to…

It’s not paranoia if it’s actually happening. The good news is that the open-source community has brought together a host of privacy technology to offer a verified solution: Tor.

Tor (or, as it used to be known, The Onion Router) is a project designed to provide anonymous access to the internet. An easy way to think of it is as a browser VPN that anyone can use.

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