Tor
Privacy network software
Tor is software and a network designed to enable anonymous internet communication by routing traffic through multiple encrypted relays.
Users access Tor through a specialized browser to mask their identity and location: Journalists in authoritarian countries often use Tor to protect sources.
The name derives from "The Onion Router," referring to its layered encryption. (Lowercase tor is a rocky hill.)
Unknown identity state
- encryptionConverting data into code
- VPNEncrypted network connection
- dark webEncrypted, unindexed online networks
- Silk RoadHistoric transcontinental trade network
whistleblower · surveillance · relay · browser · HTTPS · metadata · proxy · underground
Ideological computer infiltrator
- AnonymousLeaderless hacktivist network
- 4chanAnonymous posting site
- activismDirect effort for reform
- cyberattackMalicious digital intrusion
DDoS · leaks · collective · protest · WikiLeaks
anonymity
Unknown identity state
- encryptionConverting data into code
- VPNEncrypted network connection
- dark webEncrypted, unindexed online networks
Silk Road · whistleblower · surveillance · relay · browser · HTTPS · metadata · proxy · underground · Edward Snowden
hacktivist
Ideological computer infiltrator
cyberattack · DDoS · leaks · collective · protest · WikiLeaks
- Arthurian LegendKing Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, Camelot, Lancelot
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- digital rightsdigital rights, digital freedom, digital privacy, data privacy, data protection
- Legendary KnightsLancelot, Galahad, Gawain, Percival, Tristan
- privacy toolsVPN, proxy, anonymous browsing, private browser, secure browser
- Hacker Slanghack, pwned, leet, n00b, exploit
Torsurveillance
Systematic observation of subjects
tracking · clearnet · data collection · cookies · fingerprinting
Torclearnet
Openly accessible internet
direct connection · spyware · data harvesting · VPN · cookies
- torrential downpour
- torrential rainExtremely heavy precipitation
- torrent fileP2P distribution metadata
- torrent clientSoftware for peer-to-peer downloads