The acronym for “The Onion Router” describes a programme that builds up a higher anonymity in communication on the internet via intermediate stages. Every connection runs on several servers. Each server can only identify its precursor and successor, but not the originator or addressee of the request. In October 2013 the Guardian exposed the NSA’s recurrent attempts to identify TOR users. The only way to achieve this was via security gaps in the used browsers, since the anonymisation of TOR is quite resilient.
TOR
TORThe acronym for “The Onion Router” describes a programme that builds up a higher anonymity in communication on the internet via intermediate stages. Every connection runs on several servers. Each server can only identify its precursor and successor, but not the originator or addressee of the request. In October 2013 the Guardian exposed the NSA’s recurrent attempts to identify TOR users. The only way to achieve this was via security gaps in the used browsers, since the anonymisation of TOR is quite resilient.